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Lady Godiva
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Lady Godiva, in Old English Godgifu, was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries.
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.
Lady Godiva by John Collier, c. 1897, in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.
Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892)
Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892)
Lady Godiva, a statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled in 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £20,000 gift from W. H. Bassett-Green, a Coventrian (picture
Lady Godiva, a statue by Sir William Reid Dick unveiled in 1949 in Broadgate, Coventry, a £20,000 gift from W. H. Bassett-Green, a Coventrian (pictured in 2011)
19th century equestrian statue of the legendary ride, by John Thomas, Maidstone Museum, Kent
19th century equestrian statue of the legendary ride, by John Thomas, Maidstone Museum, Kent
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
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Leofric was an Earl of Mercia. He founded monasteries at Coventry and Much Wenlock and was a very powerful earl under King Cnut and his successors. Leofric was the husband of Lady Godiva.
Above: King Edward the Confessor and Earl Leofric of Mercia see the face of Christ appear in the Eucharistic host; below: the return of a ring given t
Above: King Edward the Confessor and Earl Leofric of Mercia see the face of Christ appear in the Eucharistic host; below: the return of a ring given to a beggar who was John the Baptist in disguise. Thirteenth-century abridgement of Domesday Book