the REAL story is 1: She loved her Saxon Countrymen and Women to accept her Norman Husbands Dare and 2: the Saxon Men honored her and turned their backs except for "peeping Tom" who had his eyes burned out. but those people back then were bumpkins and not sophisticated like our Liberals.
"The earliest extant source for the story is the Chronica (under the year 1057) of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236). He recounts that her husband, in exasperation over her ceaseless imploring that he reduce Coventry’s heavy taxes, declared he would do so if she rode naked through the crowded marketplace. She did so, her hair covering all of her body except her legs. Ranulf Higden (d. 1364), in his Polychronicon, says that as a result Leofric freed the town from all tolls save those on horses. An inquiry made in the reign of Edward I shows that at that time no tolls were paid in Coventry except on horses. A later chronicle asserts that Godiva required the townsmen to remain indoors at the time fixed for her ride. Peeping Tom, a citizen who looked out his window, apparently became a part of the legend in the 17th century. In most accounts he was struck blind or dead."
the REAL story is 1: She loved her Saxon Countrymen and Women to accept her Norman Husbands Dare and 2: the Saxon Men honored her and turned their backs except for "peeping Tom" who had his eyes burned out. but those people back then were bumpkins and not sophisticated like our Liberals.
A liberal would have cut her breasts off.
Yep yep I’m inspired
You could be famous for 1000 years .
Lady Godiva is a very big deal in Coventry. She's the mascot of the city and there's a festival in her name every year.
Don't trust us in this regard.
What exactly did she do?
"The earliest extant source for the story is the Chronica (under the year 1057) of Roger of Wendover (d. 1236). He recounts that her husband, in exasperation over her ceaseless imploring that he reduce Coventry’s heavy taxes, declared he would do so if she rode naked through the crowded marketplace. She did so, her hair covering all of her body except her legs. Ranulf Higden (d. 1364), in his Polychronicon, says that as a result Leofric freed the town from all tolls save those on horses. An inquiry made in the reign of Edward I shows that at that time no tolls were paid in Coventry except on horses. A later chronicle asserts that Godiva required the townsmen to remain indoors at the time fixed for her ride. Peeping Tom, a citizen who looked out his window, apparently became a part of the legend in the 17th century. In most accounts he was struck blind or dead."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lady-Godiva