लेडी गोडिवा
Also known as Godgifu, Godiva, Countess of Leicester, Godiva (?), Godiva
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Countess of Leicester
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Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and Countess of Leicester who lived in the 11th century. She is remembered primarily through legend, particularly a famous story about riding naked through the streets of Coventry to protest her husband's oppressive taxes, though historical details about her actual life are scarce.
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Person · Open Library
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- 2
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- History of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom of Coventry, with a Description of the Churches, and Other Public Building
- Ladye Godiva (or Coventry in the Days of Leofric, Earl of Mercia)
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- Germany
- Active from
- 1994-03-21
- Active to
- 2006-01
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11th-century deaths11th-century English women2012 Cultural OlympiadAnglo-Saxon womenCultural depictions of British peopleCultural depictions of nobilityCultural depictions of socialitesEnglish countesses by marriageEnglish tax resistersHistory of taxation in the United KingdomLady GodivaLegendary English people