File:John Collier - Lady Godiva - c 1898 - Herbert Art Gallery and Museum.jpg|thumb|alt=|Lady Godiva by John Collier, , in the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry. File:Leighton-Lady Godiva.jpg|thumb|Lady Godiva: Edmund Blair Leighton depicts her moment of decision (1892) Lady Godiva (; died between 1066 and 1086), in Old English , was a late Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who is relatively well documented as the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, and a patron of various churches and monasteries. Wikipedia