Lady Godiva

*"Living Descendants of Blood Royal", Vol 2, by Count d'Angerville, F.R.S.A. World Nobility and Peerage, London. 1962 pg 500 sub Koehler :<blockquote>"1) Griffith ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, d 5 Aug 1063 (son of Llewellyn the Great, Prince of N Wales and his wife Angharat II, Queen of Powis); m Editha, dau of Elgar d 1059 Earl of Mercia.</blockquote><blockquote>2) Nesta, d 1058; m (1) Trahaern, Prince of N Wales, d 1081; (2) Osbern, son of Richard FitzScrob, a Norman lord." citing DNB 2, 376</blockquote>

*"Living Descendants of Blood Royal", Vol 2, by Count d'Angerville, F.R.S.A. World Nobility and Peerage, London. 1962 pg 500 sub Koehler :<blockquote>"1) Griffith ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales, d 5 Aug 1063 (son of Llewellyn the Great, Prince of N Wales and his wife Angharat II, Queen of Powis); m Editha, dau of Elgar d 1059 Earl of Mercia.</blockquote><blockquote>2) Nesta, d 1058; m (1) Trahaern, Prince of N Wales, d 1081; (2) Osbern, son of Richard FitzScrob, a Norman lord." citing DNB 2, 376</blockquote>

**I correct "d 1058" to read "b 1058"

**I correct "d 1058" to read "b 1058"

*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Beal+-+Browell.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.BE.376&cr=1&sid=&gskw= Dictionary of National Biography (1922), 2, 376], "Bernard (fl. 1093), of Neufmarche (de Novo-mercatu), often called in English 'of Newmarch,' was the son of Geoffrey, son of Thurcytel, lord of Newmarche by the forest of Lions, and of Ada, daughter of Richard of Hugleville....He married the daughter of Osbern, son of Richard Fitz Scrob, the Norman lord who built his castle in Herefordshire before the Conquest....He married, probably as his second wife, Nest, the daughter of another Nest, daughter of Gruffyydd ap Llewellyn and his English wife Ealdgyth, though it is possible that the elder Nest was the wife of Osbern, and that her daughter was the only wife of Bernard....The date of his death is not known....In spite of the pious benefaction made by Nest to her husband's priory, her wickedness caused her son Mahel the loss of his father's estates.  Mahel caught her lover coming from her, and beat and mutilated him.  In revenge Nest went to King Henry and swore that her son was not the son of her husband Bernard. The king...made Nest's daughter Sibyl...heiress...and gave her in marriage to Miles FitzWalter, constable of Gloucester...."

*[http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/View.aspx?dbid=6892&path=Beal+-+Browell.Dictionary+Of+National+Biography.BE.376&cr=1&sid=&gskw= Dictionary of National Biography (1922), 2, 376], "Bernard (fl. 1093), of Neufmarche (de Novo-mercatu), often called in English 'of Newmarch,' was the son of Geoffrey, son of Thurcytel, lord of Newmarche by the forest of Lions, and of Ada, daughter of Richard of Hugleville....He married the daughter of Osbern, son of Richard Fitz Scrob, the Norman lord who built his castle in Herefordshire before the Conquest....He married, probably as his second wife, Nest, the daughter of another Nest, daughter of Gruffyydd ap Llewellyn and his English wife Ealdgyth, though it is possible that the elder Nest was the wife of Osbern, and that her daughter was the only wife of Bernard....The date of his death is not known....In spite of the pious benefaction made by Nest to her husband's priory, her wickedness caused her son Mahel the loss of his father's estates.  Mahel caught her lover coming from her, and beat and mutilated him.  In revenge Nest went to King Henry and swore that her son was not the son of her husband Bernard. The king...made Nest's daughter Sibyl...heiress...and gave her in marriage to Miles FitzWalter, constable of Gloucester...."

**CCN is Century Cyclopedia of Names, a very poor source for such an important connection

**CCN is Century Cyclopedia of Names, a very poor source for such an important connection

*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>