of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu)
Birth Name | of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) 1a 2a 3a 4a |
Gramps ID | I28782 |
Gender | female |
Age at Death | 87 years, 8 months, 9 days |
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Notes | Sources |
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Birth [E37699] | 980 | Mercia, England |
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Death [E37700] | 1067-09-10 |
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_FA1 [E37701] | The famous Lady Godiva who rode nude on her horse through Coventry. |
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_FA2 [E37702] | Lived & buried in Coventry, Warwickshire. |
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_FA3 [E37703] | Persuaded her husband to found monasteries at Coventry (1043) and Stow. |
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Thorold of Buckingham [I30096] | 955 | ||
of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) [I28782] | 980 | 1067-09-10 |
Families
  |   | Family of Earl of Mercia, Leofric III and of Coventry, Godiva (Godgifu) [F11237] | ||||||||||||
Married | Husband | Earl of Mercia, Leofric III [I28783] ( * 968-05-14 + 1057-08-31 ) | ||||||||||||
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Children |
Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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Earl of Mercia, AElfgar III of Mercia [I28779] | 1002 | BET. 1059 - 1063 |
Narrative
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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
Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation
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