GODIVA, Countess of Coventry (Lady ) [459] ¹

  General Notes:

From <http://skatfamily0.tripod.com/> - E-Mail : skatfamily@earthlink.net
Finton, Keneth Harper, "Who Were the Parents of Lucy Taillebois (Talboys)," The Plantagenet Connection, Vol. 6, Oct. 1998, Oct. 1998, pp. 110.
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Larousse dictionnary :
"Ask her husband to lower the taxes of Coventry which he agree to do if she would cross the town with only her hair to cover her. Which she did"

GODIVA married Sir LEOFRIC III "The Great" - 6th Earl of Leicester [458] [MRIN: 200], son of Sir LEOFWINE 5th Earl of Leicester, Duke of Mercia [460] and ALWARA [526], before 1030. (Sir LEOFRIC III "The Great" - 6th Earl of Leicester [458] was born in 975 in Mercia, England and died on 31 Aug 1057 in Bromley, England.)