Lady Godiva
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester
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Updated 2026-05-29
An 11th-century Mercian noblewoman best known for a legend about riding naked through town to protest her husband's taxes, though the actual Godgifu was a documented church patron and political figure.
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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.
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