Wild Eadric

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Eadric the Wild (or Eadric Silvaticus), also known as Wild Edric, Eadric Cild (or Child) and Edric the Forester, was an Anglo-Saxon magnate of Shropshire and Herefordshire who led English resistance to the Norman Conquest.

Accounts of Eadric's act of rebellion in Herefordshire in 1067 are included in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle where he is
nicknamed ‘Cild’ (literally "child"), which may signify a title of rank. He was also known as "the Wild", as witnessed by such bynames as se wild, salvage and in Latin, silvaticus.

If it is true, however, that the silvatici were for some years a widespread and well-known phenomenon, that might help to explain aspects of later outlaw stories that have puzzled historians. Few outlaws in other countries have apparently left so powerful a legend as Robin Hood… The most famous outlaws of the greenwood before him were probably the Old English nobility on their way down and out.

~ Susan Reynolds