Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, illustration from 'The Church of England: A History for the People' by H.D.M. Spence-Jones, pub. c.1910 by Edmund Blair Leighton
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection
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- Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, illustration from 'The Church of England: A History for the People' by H.D.M. Spence-Jones, pub. c.1910
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- Edmund Blair Leighton
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- STC393319
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- Open edition
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection
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Lady Godiva (1040-80) and her husband Leofric (d.1057), the 'grim' Earl of Mercer and Lord of Coventry; Leofric promised to reduce heavy taxes on the people if she rode through the streets of Coventry naked;
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