Leofric III de MERCIA, EARL OF MERCIA

                   Lady Godiva was a English legendary heroine.  She was the wife of Leof
ric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry.  A devoutly religious woman,
she was the benefactress of many monasteries, notable among the being
the Benedictine monastery at Coventry, which she induced her husband
to found in 1043.  According to legend her husband agreed to lift
an oppressive tax he had imposed on the townspeople on the
condition that she ride naked through the market place of Coventry.
When she did so, clothed only in her long hair, her husband kept
his promise and abolished the tax.  In a later version of the
legend, Lady Godiva first ordered the townspeople to remain indoors
behind closed windows.  Her order was violated by only one person, a
tailor, afterwards known as Peepling Tom, who was instantly struck
blind.
LDS ordinances taken from ancestral file.