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. He had a sister named Daughter of Leofric Earl of. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Aelfgar III Earl of East Anglia & and Erminhild of. 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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