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  Custom Field:<_FA#> Lived & buried in Coventry, Warwickshire.@@S005967@@Has her d aughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db, her gran dfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Persuaded her husband to found monasteries at Coventry (1043) and Stow.@@S005967 @@Has her daughter of John FitzAlan de Arundel who died at sea in 1379 (in my db , her grandfather) & Eleanore Matravers (in my db, her grandmother)
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  [G675.ged]
  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.
  Acco rding to legend, she obtained a reduction in the excessive taxes
  levied by he r husband on the people of Coventry by consenting to ride
  naked through the t own 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, p eered through a window and immediately
  became blind. The oldest form of the l egend 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.
  Sou rce: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p G235. 'Godiva, Lady,'
  Microsoft ( R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993
  Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation

Details of Godiva (Godgifu)'s family with Leofric III Earl of Mercia