Godgifu (Godiva)
c. 990–1067?
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman. Wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia. Tales of her beauty and piety circulated in the twelfth century. According to legend, her husband promised to free the people of Coventry from toll if she rode naked through the streets of the town.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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