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Also Known As Godgifu
Died Between 1066 and 1086

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Godiva, Lady
Monument to Lady Godiva with Holy Trinity Church (left) and the old spire of St. Michael's Cathedral (right) at Coventry, West Midlands, England.
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Ceolwulf
Anglo-Saxon king
Alfred the Great
Alfred
king of Wessex
Harold II
Harold II
king of England
Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Edward
king of England [1002?-1066]
St. Bede the Venerable
St. Bede the Venerable
Anglo-Saxon historian
Willibrord, Saint
Saint Willibrord
Anglo-Saxon missionary
Saint Benedict Biscop
English abbot
Cynewulf
English poet
Tostig, earl of Northumbria
Anglo-Saxon earl
Offa
Offa
Anglo-Saxon king
King of England
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
St. Oswald of York
English saint
H. Munro Chadwick
British historian
Edgar The Aetheling
Anglo-Saxon prince
Edward the Elder
Edward
Anglo-Saxon king
Edgar, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library (Vesp. MS. A viii)
Edgar
king of England
Wulfhere
king of Mercia
Egbert, from an undated engraving
Egbert
king of Wessex
Ealdred
Anglo-Saxon archbishop
Aethelfrith
king of Bernicia and Deira

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