Godiva and Leofric blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Godiva, Lady of Coventry (died 10th September 1067) and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia (died 28th September 1057) were buried here in the church of Benedictine monastery they founded in 1043 on the site of St Osburg's nunnery, sacked by the Danes in 1016. The Saxon church, which became Coventry's first Cathedral in 1102, was replaced in the 13th century by a great church, destroyed at the Dissolution in 1539. The remains of the west end are here exposed to view: vestiges of the east and adjoin the present cathedral. No traces of the Saxon buildings have yet been discovered.

Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman known for her charitable acts and legendary naked ride through Coventry, while her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, was a powerful English noble who played a significant role in the governance of England prior to the Norman Conquest.