Hereward's before William the conqueror, after the fall of Ely
Illustration depicting Hereward's before William the conqueror, after the fall of Ely. Hereward the Wake ((c. 1035 - c. 1072), an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base, when leading the rebellion against the Norman rulers, was the Isle of Ely in East Anglia.