Hereward the Wake
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Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and a leader of local resistance to the Norman Conquest of England. His base when he led the rebellion against the Norman rulers was the Isle of Ely, in e
Hereward escorts Alftruda, illustration by Henry Courtney Selous
Title page of Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake.
Lady Godiva
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Lady Godiva, in Old English Gōdgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries.
Hereward the Wake
…of Oslac of York, and Leofric of Bourne, nephew of Ralph the Staller. Alternatively, it has also been argued that Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva were Hereward's real parents. There is no evidence for this, and Abbot Brand of Peterborough, stated to have been Hereward's uncle, does not appear to…
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.
Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892)
Lady Godiva, a statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled in 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £20,000 gift from W. H. Bassett-Green, a Coventrian. (pictured in 2011)
19th-century equestrian statue of the legendary ride, by John Thomas, Maidstone Museum, Kent