Lady Godiva - Wikipedia. Godiva, Countess of Mercia (; fl. Bassett- Green, a Coventrian. They had one known son, Aelfgar. The Old English name Godgifu or Godgyfu meant . Since the name was a popular one, there are contemporaries of the same name.
Both Leofric and Godiva were generous benefactors to religious houses. In 1. 04. 3 Leofric founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at Coventry.
Writing in the 1. Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act.
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In the 1. 05. 0s, her name is coupled with that of her husband on a grant of land to the monastery of St. Mary, Worcester and the endowment of the minster at Stow St Mary, Lincolnshire. The church there has a 2. However, this charter is considered spurious by many historians. She is mentioned in the Domesday survey as one of the few Anglo- Saxons and the only woman to remain a major landholder shortly after the conquest. By the time of this great survey in 1.
Godiva had died, but her former lands are listed, although now held by others. According to the Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham, or Evesham Chronicle, she was buried at the Church of the Blessed Trinity at Evesham, which is no longer standing. According to the account in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, .
According to the typical version of the story. 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 strip naked and ride on a horse through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word, and after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair.
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Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism. Thus Godiva might have actually travelled through town as a penitent, in her shift.
Godiva's story could have passed into folk history to be recorded in a romanticised version. Another theory has it that Lady Godiva's . However, these attempts to reconcile known facts with legend are both weak; in the era of the earliest accounts, the word . According to his Chronicle of England (1. And as a pre- condition, she required the officials of Coventry to forbid the populace .
Reader (from an 1. The story of . Reference by 1. The author has dated this effigy, based on the style of armour he is shown wearing, from the reign of Charles II (d.
The same writer felt the legend had to be subsequent to William Dugdale (d. Coventry at full length. See 1. 77. 3 date below, and the alternate suggested name . Reader dates the first Godiva procession to 1. It has been pointed out that Tom (Thomas) is not an Anglo- Saxon name, and therefore hardly likely to be a name of a townsperson governed by Leoffric. Coventry was still a small settlement, with only 6. Domesday Book some decades later.
Lastly, the only recorded tolls were on horses. Thus, it remains doubtful whether there is any historical basis for the famous ride. The story is particularly doubtful since Countess Godiva would herself have been responsible for setting taxation in Coventry; Salic law, which excluded females from the inheritance of a throne or fief, did not apply in Anglo- Saxon society. If only because of the nudity in the story, its popularity has been maintained, and spread internationally, with many references in modern popular culture. Images in art and society. The oldest painting was commissioned by the County of the City of Coventry in 1.
Adam van Noort, a refugee Flemish artist. His painting depicts a . In addition the Gallery has collected many Victorian interpretations of the subject described by Marina Warner as . When he died in 1.
Corporation of Hampstead. He specified in his will that should his bequest be refused by Hampstead (presumably on grounds of propriety) the painting was then to be offered to Coventry. The painting now hangs in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum. Coventry: A Century of News. Coventry Evening Telegraph.
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Grafton's chronicle, or history of England: to which is added his table of the bailiffs, sheriffs and mayors of the city of London from the year 1. Dugdale, even hints at the circumstance in question. We may safely, therefore, appropriate it to the reign of Charles II. Sydney, Science of Fairy Tales, (1.
Annals of Coventry, ms. Swinnertons Son represented Lady Godiva. Pennant (Journey from Chester to London)(1. The name 'peeping Tom' occurs in the city accounts on 1. June 1. 77. 3 when a new wig and fresh paint were supplied for his effigy. Tindal Thomas (tr.) (1. The History of England.
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