Lady Godiva of Coventry 
Lady Godiva of was born in 0980 in Mercia, England. Lady Godiva of's father was Thorold of Buckingham. She was an only child. She died at the age of 87 on September 10th, 1067 in Coventry, Warwickshire.General Notes
Godiva, Lady (flourished about 1040-80), Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia (flourished 1005-57). She is known to have persuaded her husband to found monasteries at Coventry (1043) and Stow. According to legend, she obtained a reduction in the excessive taxes levied by her husband on the people of Coventry by consenting to ride naked through the town on a white horse. Only one person disobeyed her orders to remain indoors behind closed shutters; this man, a tailor known afterward as Peeping Tom, peered through a window and immediately became blind. The oldest form of the legend is in the 13th-century Flores Historiarum (Flowers of the Historians). A festival in her honor was instituted as part of Coventry Fair in 1678.
Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p G235. 'Godiva, Lady,' Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993
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Children
III Ælfgar
III was born before 1002 in Mercia, England. He died in 1059 in Mercia, England. He was buried in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
Sheriff of Lincoln Thorold
Sheriff of Lincoln was born about 1040 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England.
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