Lady Godiva
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Leofric was Earl of Mercia. At some point he married a woman named Godgifu ("God's Gift") whose name has come to us as Godiva. She is most famously known for her legendary ride while naked through Coventry to protest her husband's high taxes on the populace. That this could have actually occurred is very doubtful. It is not noted by any contemporary chronicler and it would have been quite newsworthy certainly. The story is first recited about 200 years after her probable death. | Leofric was Earl of Mercia. At some point he married a woman named Godgifu ("God's Gift") whose name has come to us as Godiva. She is most famously known for her legendary ride while naked through Coventry to protest her husband's high taxes on the populace. That this could have actually occurred is very doubtful. It is not noted by any contemporary chronicler and it would have been quite newsworthy certainly. The story is first recited about 200 years after her probable death. | ||
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| + | It is aleged that Aelfgar who is known from the ASC entry below to be Leofric's son, was also Godgifu's son. Aelfgar was made Earl of East Anglia in 1051. He is supposed to have had a daughter Ealdgyth (Edith) who is said-to-have married Gruffydd ap Llewellyn, Ruler of Gwynedd and Powys from 1039 and eventually by 1055 King of all Wales, united under him. Their daughter Nest married Osbert FitzRichard and she died in 1058 having given birth to at least two children. All of this needs to be confirmed or denied by primary research. | ||
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