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The rebel who defied William the Conqueror

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Herrywood's Rebellion Kicks Off in Ten 70, Is That Correct?

I think we can be confident that herrywood existed, that his father was a king's thane with significant landholdings. The time line of some of his revolt against william becomes really difficult to pick out from the various accounts that we have all over the place. This could all be hugely made up in the vein of beowulf as a way of explaining how a warrior becomes a great warrior in anglo saxon, england and around the time of the conquest. So it's really, really hard to know what sources we should believe and what we shouldn't. I think we have some really bare bones that we can hang the story from. But the fact is,

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