Lady GodivA!!!?

Question

Ok so i am doing a power point on Lady Godiva and i need some more facts about what family she was connected with, how she affected history (i know she rode throught town naked), and some more interesting facts. and i am not lazy i have done a lot of work on this but i just need a little help.
also i need 8 slides for this and i only have 7 and i don't know what to do with the one.
the ones i have are:
the title
basic information
family connections
affected history
interesting facts
the story
Blank (if the story didn't fit on one slide but it did so nothing to do with the slide)
and my resources

thanks!!!!

Answer 1

Godiva was the wife of Leofric (968–1057), Earl of Mercia. Her name occurs in charters and the Domesday survey, though the spelling varies. The Anglo-Saxon name Godgifu or Godgyfu meant "gift of God"; Godiva was the Latinised version. Since the name was a popular one, there are contemporaries of the same name.

If she is the same Godgifu who appears in the chronicles of Ely, Liber Eliensis (end of 12th century), then she was a widow when Leofric married her. Both Leofric and Godiva were generous benefactors to religious houses. In 1043 Leofric founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at Coventry. Writing in the 12th century, Roger of Wendover credits Godiva as the persuasive force behind this act. In the 1050s, her name is coupled with that of her husband on a grant of land to the monastery of St Mary, Worcester and the endowment of the minster at Stow St Mary, Lincolnshire. She and her husband are commemorated as benefactors of other monasteries at Leominster, Chester, Much Wenlock and Evesham.

The manor of Woolhope in Herefordshire, along with three others, was given to the cathedral at Hereford before the Norman Conquest by the benefactresses Wulviva and Godiva - usually held to be this Godiva and her sister. The church there has a 20th century stained glass window representing them.

Her mark, "di Ego Godiva Comitissa diu istud desideravi", appears on a charter purportedly given by Thorold of Bucknall to the Benedictine monastery of Spalding. However, this charter is considered spurious by many historians. Even so it is possible that Thorold, who appears in the Domesday Book as sheriff of Lincolnshire, was her brother.

After Leofric's death in 1057, his widow lived on until sometime between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and 1086. She is mentioned in the Domesday survey as one of the few Anglo-Saxons and the only woman to remain a major landholder shortly after the conquest. By the time of this great survey in 1086, Godiva had died, but her former lands are listed, although now held by others. Thus, Godiva apparently died between 1066 and 1086. One web-page, without specifying its source, states that she died on September 10, 1067.

The place where Godiva was buried is a matter of debate. According to one source, she was probably buried at the Church of the Blessed Trinity at Evesham, which is no longer standing. However, the novelist Octavia Randolph says that Godiva was buried next to her husband at the priory church in Coventry.

Dugdale (1656) says that a window with representations of Leofric and Godiva was placed in Trinity Church, Coventry, about the time of Richard II.

from wikipedia

Answer 2

Godiva (or Godgifu) (c. 990? – September 10, 1067) become an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, who, in accordance to legend, rode bare throughout the streets of Coventry in England as a fashion to income a remission of the oppressive toll imposed via her husband on his tenants.