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	Leofric, Earl of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leofric (died 31 August or 30 September 1057) was the Earl of Mercia and founded monasteries at Coventry and Much Wenlock.
		Mercia he initially left in the hands of Eadric Streona, who had been Ealdorman of Mercia since 1007, but Eadric was killed later in the same year of 1017.
		In the 1050s Leofric and Godiva appear jointly in the grant of land to the monastery of St Mary, Worcester,[2], and the endowment of the minster at Stow St Mary, Lincolnshire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leofric,_Earl_of_Mercia (818 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric, the Earl of Mercia, was often referred to as the Earl of Chester as he spent so much time in that city.
		Leofric was a strong backer of the English royal line, despite Edward the Confessor's reliance on Godwin council and support.
		It was largely through the Earl of Mercia's efforts that the ransom was accumulated so that Bishop Aldred could afford the release of Aethelred's kin in exile in Hungary.
	www.stevenjames.org /mercia.htm (141 words)

	The Bailey Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She was married to Leofric III Earl of MERCIA.
		Parents: Leofric III Earl of MERCIA and "Lady" Godiva, Countess of MERCIA.
		Leofric III Earl of MERCIA was born in 975 in Mercia, England.
	bailey.aros.net /jsbailey/d138.htm (1122 words)

	Countess Godiva
		Leofric was the son of Leofwine, who had been ealdorman of the Hwicce under Æthelred, and according to Sir F. Stenton was one of only two Englishmen to remain in power during the reign of Danish king Cnut, Earl Godwine being the other.
		Mercia was a large and important land holding which consisted of the counties of Southern Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
		In 1056 Leofric, though an old man, remained in a position of power and influence, he was one of a powerful group of nobles who negotiated a settlement between Gruffydd ap Llywelyn king of Gwynedd and Powys, and Edward, in which Gruffydd accepted Edward as his lord in return for extensive territories.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /parsonal/godiva.htm (4339 words)

	33rd Generation (cont.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric of Mercia III, Earl of Mercia was born 14 May 968 in Mercia, England.
		BIOGRAPHY: Leofric III was an Anglo-Saxon earl of Mercia (from some date prior to 1032), one of the three great earls of 11th century England, who took a leading part in public affairs.
		Godiva was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia, with whom she founded and endowed a monastery at Coventry.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /edebeauchamp/aqwg54.htm (2180 words)

	Lady Godiva
		Leofric, earl of Mercia, and husband of Lady Godiva, was a man of broad but obscure interests; a religious man thoroughly Christian, and an entrepreneur, raconteur, and general all around good sport.
		Leofric and Godiva came to be awarded the attention and respect they longed for from the start, and they had served the purposes of the church as well.
		As a gentleman, and now established philanthropist of some local repute, Leofric assumed a growing role in the governance of public affairs, and was given responsibility for certain financial matters (the town had grown enough to actually have financial matters), which he quickly understood as presenting especially interesting opportunities.
	www.abacom.com /~jkrause/godiva.html (1559 words)

	Ancestors from New England and Europe - pafg341 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric Earl of Mercia III 3c32-8885 [Parents] was born about 998.
		Leofric Earl of Mercia sc-8888 was born about 855.
		Ethelred Earl of Mercia s+-8890 was born about 876 in,,England.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/Sumter/pafg341.htm (191 words)

	Ray's Genealogy Page - Descendency Chart of Elfleda of Mercia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric III Earl of Mercia ; 0975 - 8/31/1057 and 1.
		Leofric III Earl of Mercia ; 0975 - 8/31/1057 and 2.
		– Aethelglyth of Mercia ; abt 0860 - and Ealdorman Aethelhelm of Wiltshire
	209.190.235.73 /genes/db/descend.cfm?id=5906 (1286 words)

	Hereward The Wake - Robin Hood Loxley Little John Hathersage legend outlaw Barnsdale Nottingham crusades chivalry
		Hereward was the son of Leofric, the Earl of Mercia and his mother was Lady Godiva.
		Earl Leofric was very harsh and the people of Coventry suffered greatly because of him.
		Though the king’s writ of outlawry might run in Mercia, it did not carry more than nominal weight in Northumbria, where Earl Siward (note the connection for Siward was the father of Waltheof) ruled almost as an independent lord.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /kirk6479/mycustompage0013.htm (1624 words)

	30TH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric Hereward III Earl of Mercia was born in 974 in Norfolk, England.
		Lady Godiva, Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, known to have persuaded her husband to found monasteries at Coventry and Stow.
		Aelgar "Algar" Earl of Mercia was born about 1002 in Norfolk, England.
	home.gci.net /~airloom/jcb/d137.htm (174 words)

	A History of Penn and its People
		In what is believed to be her second marriage, she married one of the most powerful men in the country, Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry.
		Leofric and Siward, Earl of Northumbria defended the king against the attack and Godwin fled into exile.
		Leofric was described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as “wise for God and for the world”.
	www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk /articles/Penn/history/Godiva.htm (1154 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		for "the wife of an earl," from M.L. cometissa, fem.
		Race was begun 1780 by the 12th Earl of Derby; Parliament always adjourned for it, and the name was used for any major horse race after 1875.
		The modern spelling is from Scottish, where c.1220 it came to mean "chief of a clan, king's baron," and probably predominated in Eng.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=earl (1018 words)

	TimeRef - History Timelines - Medieval People Starting With L
		Leofric rose to power during the reign of Canute and Edward the Confessor.
		William was the illegitimate son of Henry II and became the earl of Salisbury after marrying the heiress to the earldom of Salisbury in 1198.
		Louis persuaded the Earl of Warwick (a Yorkist) and Margaret of Anjou the exiled wife of Henry VI (a Lancastrian) to combine forces and attempt to over through Edward.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/hprl.htm (2501 words)

	Lady Godiva: medievalhistory.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She is remembered as having staged a protest on behalf of her own subject-tenants who were overly burdened by the heavy taxation imposed upon Mercia by her own husband, the Lord Leofric, Earl of Mercia under King Edward.
		Leofric, as the third most powerful man in England, would have had no interest in the taxation of a tiny rural community.
		The Earl Leofric's successor in 1055 was their son Aelfgar.
	www.medievalhistory.net /godiva.htm (741 words)

	Devenport Family and Kinfolks - pafg120 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Leofric III Earl of Mercia [Parents] was born in 975 in of Mercia,, England.
		Godiva Countess or Mercia [Parents] was born about 980 in of Mercia,, England.
		Leofwine Earl of Mercia [Parents] was born about 946 in of Mercia,, England.
	www.nmol.com /~jdport/devenport/pafg120.htm (228 words)

	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Earl Edwin MERCIA ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL Decendants
		If the earls had not abandoned London, this was still the best position, cutting them off from their own country and the city from the region whence reinforcements must come if they came at all.
		Possibly he is right in both statements, and the earls had returned to make their peace when they saw that resistance was hopeless.
		He took with him a splendid assortment of plunder and a long train of English nobles, among whom the young atheling Edgar, Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, Earls Edwin and Marcar, Waltheof, son of Siward, the Abblot of Galstonbury, and a thaneof Kent, are mentioned by name.
	www.geneal.net /2823.htm (1393 words)

	Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl Godwin and King Edward were reconciled the following year, so Harold was restored to his earldom - but not for long.
		The earl was the first to take flight, and so Gruyffdd and Ælfgar pursued them, killing and wounding as they went, and took savage reprisals on Hereford.
		His second son, Morcar was elected Earl of Northumbria when Tostig Godwinson was ejected by the Northumbrians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/%C3%86lfgar,_Earl_of_Mercia (374 words)

	Ll Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Allied with Alfgar, son of Earl Leofric of Mercia who was in dispute with Godwin of Wessex, father of Svein now in exile in Byzantium.
		In 1055, Aelfgar, son of the earl of Mercia, was the victim of a political attack, and an attempt was made to have him exiled.
		in 1058 the personal conflict between earl Harold and Aelfgar, who by then had succeeded as earl of Mercia, was renewed, and the pattern of 1055 was repeated, but Aelfgar could not be removed from the scene.
	www.packrat-pro.com /lln.htm (952 words)

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		Marriage: (1): Earl Leofric> III Of Mercia-[2911] 1030
		Godiva> married Earl Leofric> III Of Mercia-[2911] [MRIN:764], son of Earl Leofwine Hwiccas> Ealdorman Of Mercia-[2968] and Countess Alwara> Of Mercia-[2969], in 1030.
		(Earl Leofric> III Of Mercia-[2911] was born on 14 May 968 in, Mercia,, England and died on 31 Aug 1057 in, Bromley, Stafford, England.)
	www.frontiernet.net /~garynhelen/adameve/adameve/2912.htm (1713 words)

	Lady Godiva: A Woman Who Dared to Be Bare
		Lady Godiva (Godifu, spelling of her time) according to historians, was an Anglo-Saxon woman that lived during the period of 1040-1080 A.D. She was married to Leofric, Earl of Mercia.
		Lady Godiva was a woman of the arts, an equestrian and hunter while Leofric who was quite a bit older that she, was a religious Christian man that made considerable riches as an entrepreneur.
		The Earl and his wife were unable to make such an impact while they lived in Shrewsbury since they were considered to not have the credentials to enter such social circles.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/her_story/78643/1 (593 words)

	Operation Leofric - History
		The church of Leominster was a particular favourite of Leofric, earl of Mercia under King Cnut and husband of the pious Godifu - Lady Godiva. It seems likely that it was Leofric who built the large stone structure recently found by ground penetrating radar adjacent to Leominster Priory.
		The first religious foundation was by Merewald, a king of Mercia, about660 AD with Ealfred, a Northumbrian missionary, as the first Abbott.The legend is that Ealfred came into the King’s court, tired and weary, and sat down to eat bread.
		The latter, who was buried in the Church about 1060, left lands to the Priory and a copy of the tablet to his memory may be seen on the south wall.
	www.operationleofric.com /history.htm (700 words)

	Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		/Edulph of WESSEX b: 921 /Earl of Mercia LEOFWINE b: 950 d: 1023
		=> /LEOFRIC III, Earl of Mercia b: 14 MAY 968 d: 31 AUG 1057
		\Alwara of MERCIA b: 955 /AELFGAR III, Earl of Mercia b: 1002 d: BET 1059 AND 1063
	home.comcast.net /~mgmorey/gen/1040_LucyOfMercia.html (116 words)

	Mercia Ancestry
		Children of Leofric of, Earl of Mercia Mercia and Godiva
		Stepchildren of Aelfgar of, King of Mercia Mercia: Children of Aelfgifu of England and Earl of Wessex GODWIN
		Children of Aelfgar of, King of Mercia Mercia and Aelfgifu of England
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~slhoy/MERCIA.HTML (155 words)

	Hereward the Wake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In legend and story he is described as the son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, but there is no evidence for this.
		Charles Kingsley's novel of 1865 is a highly-romanticised account of Hereward's exploits, and makes him the son of Earl Leofric of Mercia.
		Hereward is believed to have been the son of Earl Leofric of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Hereward_the_Wake (1050 words)

	zzmisc03
		That is unlikely mainly because that is not mentioned in any of the 'reliable' sources (the Aelgifu/Elgiva who was King Ethelred's daughter is reported as having married only once, to Uchtred, Earl of Bernicia) whilst the dates indicate that Princess Aelgifu was a generation earlier than Aelfgar (Uchtred died in 1016).
		Whilst it appears that the matter is by no means clear, we show her as daughter of Thorold (Turold) of Bucknell, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, by a daughter of William de Malet.
		Lucy (dau of either Algar, Earl of Mercia, or Thorold, Sheriff of Lincoln)
	www.stirnet.com /HTML/genie/british/xyz/zzmisc03.htm (822 words)

	Leofric III Earl of MERCIA/Godiva Countess of MERCIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Leofric III Earl of MERCIA/Godiva Countess of MERCIA
		Born: 14 MAY 968 at:, Mercia,, Eng Married: 1030 at: Died: 31 AUG 1057 at:, Bromlely, Staffordshire, Eng Father:Leofwine Earl of MERCIA Mother:Alwara Countess of MERCIA Other Spouses:
		1016 at: Died: 1059 at:, Mercia,, Eng Spouses: Elfgifu Princess of ENGLAND
	home.comcast.net /~barbara7905/fam/fam04821.html (147 words)

	III LEOFRIC, EARL OF MERCIA/Countess Of Mercia GODIVA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		III LEOFRIC, EARL OF MERCIA/Countess Of Mercia GODIVA
		Born: 14 MAY 968 at: Mercia, England Married: 1030 at: Died: 31 AUG 1057 at: Father:Earl Of Mercia LEOFWINE Mother:Countess Of Mercia ALWARA Other Spouses:
		1015-1036at: Died: 1059 at: Mercia, England Spouses: Elfgifu, PRINCESS OF ENGLAND
	www.geocities.com /dan_ashton/html/fam00629.htm (100 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Lady Godgifu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		1118) mentions Leofric and Godiva with respect, but does not refer to the ride.
		The Godiva procession, from 1678 part of Coventry Fair, is held every seven or eight years.
		(Leofric of Mercia died on 31 Aug 1057 in Bromley, Staffordshire, England.)
	nygaard.howards.net /files/4507.htm (237 words)

	National Policy Analysis #242: Congress Considers Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment - April 1999
		In the year 1057, Lady Godiva urged her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes on the people of Coventry.
		Leofric replied that he would do so only if his wife rode naked through the town marketplace.
		Covering her body with her long hair, she protected both her own modesty and her husband's pride, permitting him to lower taxes without loss of face.1
	www.nationalcenter.org /NPA242.html (951 words)

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