Lady Godiva

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*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49030&iid=FLHG_AncestralRoots-0189&sid=&gskw=Record+Godiva&cr=1 Ancestral Roots, 7th edition, line 176] stating :<blockquote>2 Gruffydd I ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd and Powys, 1039, and of Deheubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063; m as 1st husb., abt 1057, Edith (or Aldgyth) (176A-4), dau of Aelfgar (176A-3). (ASC 1035, 1051, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1058; CCN 444, 604). She m (2) abt 1064, (Harold II (1B-23), King of England, (CP VI, 451-453, DNB 23: 307; NGSQ 50 (1962): 76-77; Dict of Welsh Biog., cit., p 312)</blockquote>
 
*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49030&iid=FLHG_AncestralRoots-0189&sid=&gskw=Record+Godiva&cr=1 Ancestral Roots, 7th edition, line 176] stating :<blockquote>2 Gruffydd I ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd and Powys, 1039, and of Deheubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063; m as 1st husb., abt 1057, Edith (or Aldgyth) (176A-4), dau of Aelfgar (176A-3). (ASC 1035, 1051, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1058; CCN 444, 604). She m (2) abt 1064, (Harold II (1B-23), King of England, (CP VI, 451-453, DNB 23: 307; NGSQ 50 (1962): 76-77; Dict of Welsh Biog., cit., p 312)</blockquote>
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**ASC is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which I've transcribed above
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**CCN is Century Cyclopedia of Names
  
 
*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/flowers/godiva.html "Godiva"] at Encyclopaedia Romana online, among other things they claim the Chronicle ascribed to Florence was actually writen by John of Worcester from 1124 to 1140
 
*[http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/flowers/godiva.html "Godiva"] at Encyclopaedia Romana online, among other things they claim the Chronicle ascribed to Florence was actually writen by John of Worcester from 1124 to 1140
  
 
*The 1985 EB has this to say<blockquote>fl c 1040-1080, Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride while nude through Coventry, Warwickshire</blockquote><blockquote>Godiva was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, with whom she founded and endowed a monastery at Coventry.  The chronicler Florence of Worcester (d. 1118) mentions Leofric and Godiva with respect, but does not refer to the ride.  There is no evidence connecting the rider with the historical Godiva.</blockquote><blockquote>The earliest extant source for the story is the 'Chronica' (under the year 1057) of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236).  He recounts that her husband, in exasperation over her ceaseless imploring that he reduce Coventry's heavy taxes, declared that he would so if she rode naked through the croweded marketplace.  She did so, her hair covering all of her body except her legs.  Ranulf Higdon (d.1364) in his 'Polychronicon', says that as a result Leofric freed the town from all tolls save those on horses.  An inquiry made in the reign of Edward I shows that at the time no tolls were paid in Coventry except on horses.  A later chronicle assets that Godiva required the townsmen to remain indoors at the time fixed for her ride.  Peeping Tom, a citizen who looked out his window, apparently became a part of the legend in the 17th century.  In most accounts he was struck blind or dead.</blockquote>
 
*The 1985 EB has this to say<blockquote>fl c 1040-1080, Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride while nude through Coventry, Warwickshire</blockquote><blockquote>Godiva was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, with whom she founded and endowed a monastery at Coventry.  The chronicler Florence of Worcester (d. 1118) mentions Leofric and Godiva with respect, but does not refer to the ride.  There is no evidence connecting the rider with the historical Godiva.</blockquote><blockquote>The earliest extant source for the story is the 'Chronica' (under the year 1057) of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236).  He recounts that her husband, in exasperation over her ceaseless imploring that he reduce Coventry's heavy taxes, declared that he would so if she rode naked through the croweded marketplace.  She did so, her hair covering all of her body except her legs.  Ranulf Higdon (d.1364) in his 'Polychronicon', says that as a result Leofric freed the town from all tolls save those on horses.  An inquiry made in the reign of Edward I shows that at the time no tolls were paid in Coventry except on horses.  A later chronicle assets that Godiva required the townsmen to remain indoors at the time fixed for her ride.  Peeping Tom, a citizen who looked out his window, apparently became a part of the legend in the 17th century.  In most accounts he was struck blind or dead.</blockquote>

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