Hereward Thegn of Mercia 
Hereward Thegn of was born in 1004 in Barholm, Lincolnshire, England. Hereward Thegn of's father was Leofric III Earl of Mercia and his mother was First Wife or Mistress. His paternal grandparents were Leofwine I Earl of Mercia and Alwara Athelstansdottir. He had a sister named Daughter of Leofric Earl of. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-brother named Aelfgar III Earl of East Anglia &. He died after 1086 in Witham, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
Hereward, Mercian Thegn, who led the Anglo-Saxon resistence to William I (The Conqueror) 1071 and who apparently got back his pre-conquest lands at Witham, Barholm, and Rippingale about the time of the Domesday Suvey 1086. [Burke's Peerage]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0946 in Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia) d.< 1032 in Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia)
- b.14 May 0968 in Chester, Cheshire, England (Mercia) d.31 Aug 1057 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England (Mercia)
- b.0955 in Mercia, England
- b.1004 in Barholm, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1086 in Witham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0980 in Mercia, England
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