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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Articles with short description, Legendary English people, 11th-century English women, Anglo-Saxon women, Webarchive template wayback links
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Godiva  Lady Godiva  Lady Godiva in Popular Culture  Aethenoth  Godgifu
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According to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080) WordNet 3.0
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According to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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. Wikipedia
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman Wikipedia Disambiguation
An 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode unclothed through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation that her husband had imposed on his tenants. Wiktionary
IS A
Lady
homo
CHILD
Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
Kingdom of England
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Old English
NOBLE TITLE
Nobile
PLACE OF BIRTH
Mercia
PLACE OF BURIAL
Coventry
PLACE OF DEATH
Kingdom of England
SEX OR GENDER
female
SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION
nobility
SPOUSE
Leofric, Earl of Mercia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Godiva, Lady Godiva
Wikipedia
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Lady Godiva
Wikidata
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Lady Godiva
Wiktionary
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Godiva
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Aethenoth, Godgifu of Mercia, Godgyfu, Godiva, Godiva, Countess of Mercia, Godiva Countess of Mercia, Lady Godiva in Popular Culture, Lady Godiva in popular culture, Peeping Tom of Coventry, Pru Porretta
Wikidata Alias
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Godgifu, Godiva, Countess of Leicester, Godiva (?)

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