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LADY COUNTESS OF LEICESTER
Godgifu GODIVA LADY GODIVA  Sex: Female
Birth Date 0980 Mercia, England
Death Date  1067 Coventry, Warwickshire, England 
Father nn MERCIA   Born:  
Mother NN Mercia  Born:  
Godgifu GODIVA
Notes:		 Godiva (or Godgifu) (fl. 1040-1080) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name "Peeping Tom" for a voyeur comes from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom watched her ride and was struck blind or dead." 
Notes: Lady Godiva Buckingham, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, was the beautiful wife of Leofric III, Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry.; She is known to have persuaded her husband to found monasteries at Coventry and Stow. The people of Coventry were suffering grievously under the earls oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At last, weary of her entreaties, he said he would grant her request if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. According to legend, she consented to ride naked through the town on a white horse; Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a proclamation that all persons should keep within doors or shut their windows, she rode through, clothed only in her long hair.; Only one person disobeyed her orders to remain indoors behind closed shutters; this man, a tailor known afterward as "Peeping Tom", bored a hole in his shutters that he might see Godiva pass and immediately became blind. Her husband kept his word and abolished the onerous taxes. The oldest form of this 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.The oldest form of the legend has Godiva passing through Coventry market from one end to the other while the people were assembled, attended only by two female (clothed) riders. This version is given in Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover (died 1236), a somewhat credulous collector of anecdotes, who quoted from an earlier writer. The still later story, with its episode of Peeping Tom, appeared first among 17th century chroniclers. Whether the Lady Godiva of this story is the Godiva or Godgifu ("gift of God") of history is undecided. Comment 
Spouse: Leofric III earl of Mercia   Sex: Male
Birth Date 0975  
Death Date 1057  
Father Leofwine Born: 0960 Died: 1023
Mother Born:
Leofric III earl of Mercia Notes:  
Individual Notes:  
3 Children Mother Spouse Grand Children
1 Alfgar EARL of MERCIA
b.1002
d.1059 		Leofric
2 ErminHild De Warwick
b.1008
d.1050 Picardie, Somme, France		 Leofric
3 Ealdgyth
b.1025
d. 		Leofric
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Of Troy
De Troie
Ben Ilus
De Tróia
Son of Anchise
Of Lavinium Eu
From Ascanius
Ap Silvius of
Ap Brutus of C
Ap Camber of C
Ap Gorwynyawn
Ap Dyfnwal Hen
Ap Cyngen de C
Ap Asser of Ca
Ap Bleiddid de
Ap Henwin of t
Ap Cunedda
Ap Rivallo
Ap Gwrwst
Ap Antonius
Ap Aedd Mawr
Ap Pridain of
Ap Cynfarch of
Ap Cloten of t
Ap Dyfnwal Moe
Ap Belinus of
Ap Gurguit Bar
Ap Guithelin o
Ap Sisillius l
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