Students gathered in Broadgate to perform Lady Godiva's Birthday Suit The Musical, a show based on the famous woman who, ...

Earl of Sandwich moved into the former La Brea Bakery when plans for Porto’s Bakery to take over the location were delayed. Concept art of the Porto’s Bakery exterior coming to Downtown Disney.

Her eventual marriage to Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry, shows that she was of high social standing. As one of the most powerful earls of his time, Leofric would have made a strong match ...

Half way between Rugely and Lichfield, Staffordshire, is the village of Kings Bromley, where once a lady lived, and was wooed by one Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she ...

In the arms of his family may still be seen the eagle displayed of that Leofric, Earl of MERCIA, who is remarkable chiefly for his treatment of his wife, the Lady Godiva.

James Earl Jones, who was 93 when he died Monday, will be remembered by baseball purists for the stirring, soul-reaching words he delivered in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams.” ...

Earl Edwin of Mercia Edwin, or Ēadwine in Old English, was born to the Earl of Mercia, Ælfgār. Ælfgār himself had famous parents – Leofric, another Earl of Mercia, and Lady Godgifu, otherwise known as ...

Who is the woman they’re talking about? Lady Godiva was a noblewoman in medieval England of Anglo-Saxon ancestry, who managed to keep her land despite the Norman invasion of 1066. She was married to ...

Her husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Lord of Coventry, agreed to remit his oppressive taxation on the town if Lady Godiva would ride the streets naked.

The leaders of Mercia were the historic enemies of Wales and in 1039 Earl Leofric had seen his brother, Edwin, killed by Gruffudd at Rhyd-y-groes. But the relentless rise of the Godwine family in ...

The Priory of St Mary's, built by Lady Godiva and Leofric, earl of Mercia, was home to an abbot and a community of monks. The centre and undercroft will be open for tours.