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Lady Godiva

Female 1010 - 1086  (56 years)


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  • Name Lady Godiva   [2] 
    • Lady Godiva was an 11th century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to a legend dating back at least to the 13th century, rode naked--only covered in her long hair--through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. [1]
    Birth 1010  Mercia, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Death Between 1066 and 1086  [1] 
    Burial Coventry, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I39299  Main Tree
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2016 

    Family Leofric,   b. Mercia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Aug or 30 Sep 1057, Bromley, Stafford, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Aelfgar,   b. Mercia, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1062, Mercia, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
    Family ID F03491  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Feb 2016 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Coventry, Warwickshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S03581] Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

    2. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.


  

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