|
Bad Boy
Wendover
Alban
St Albans
Bells
Magna Carta
Great Council
Prayer
Godiva
Matthew Paris
Stephen Langton
|
 Lady
Godiva, (gōdī'vu), wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia; famous for
her legendary ride through the city of Coventry. She was a
benefactor of several monasteries, especially that at Coventry,
which she and her husband founded (1043).
The legend about her, which first appears in the chronicle of
Roger of Wendover, states that her husband agreed to remit the heavy
taxation on the people of Coventry if she would ride naked through
the town on a white horse.
The story of Peeping Tom, the only person who looked through the
closed shutters, did not enter the legend until the 17th cent.
Michael Drayton (1613), Tennyson (1842), and others made Lady Godiva
the subject of poems. A bronze statue of her by Sir William Reid
Dick was erected in Coventry in 1949
 
Bad Boy
Wendover
Alban St
Albans Bells
Magna Carta Great Council Prayer
Godiva Mathew
Paris Stephen Langton |
