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     Walter Fitz Roger de Pîtres died.

     Nesta was the daughter of Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard and Nesta of North Wales. Nesta died. She married Bernard de Neufmarche' Lord of Brecon, son of Geoffrey de Neufmarche' and Ada NN----.¹

     Bernard de Neufmarche' Lord of Brecon was the son of Geoffrey de Neufmarche' and Ada NN----. Bernard de Neufmarche' Lord of Brecon married Nesta, daughter of Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard and Nesta of North Wales.¹ Bernard de Neufmarche' Lord of Brecon died.

     Geoffrey de Neufmarche' was the son of Thurcytel de Neufmarche'. Geoffrey de Neufmarche' died. He married Ada NN----, daughter of Richard Fitz Gulbert.

     Ada NN---- was the daughter of Richard Fitz Gulbert. Ada NN---- married Geoffrey de Neufmarche', son of Thurcytel de Neufmarche'. Ada NN---- died.

     Richard Fitz Gulbert was the son of Gulbert de St. Valerie and NN---- [Papia] NN----. Richard Fitz Gulbert died. Seigneur of Hugleville and Auffay in Normandy, seen 1025-1053.

     Gulbert de St. Valerie died. Seen 1011, advocate of St. Valerie, protector of the monastery of Fecamp.

     NN---- [Papia] NN---- was the daughter of Richard I. NN---- [Papia] NN---- died. Said to be Papia, illegitimate daughter of Richard I, "the Fearless".

     Nesta of North Wales died. She married Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard, son of Richard Fitz Scrob. Nesta of North Wales was born. She was the daughter of Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP and Edith NN----.

     Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard was the son of Richard Fitz Scrob. Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard married Nesta of North Wales, daughter of Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP and Edith NN----. Of Richard's Castle, co. Hereford, sheriff of Hereford, 1060. Osborn or Osbert Fitz Richard died.

     Of Richard's Castle. Richard Fitz Scrob died.

     
Prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd and Powys, 1039, and of Deheubarth, 1055. Slain 5 August 1063.

The head and shield and defender of the Britons', gruffydd was little more than a warlord who was conspicuously successful in creating a personal hegemony in Wales and combating the English. The son of Llywelyn ap Seisyll, king of Gwynedd, and Angharad, the king of Deheubarth's daughter, he was slow and listless as a youth but grew into a courageous and ambitious leader who won Gwynedd and Powys in battle 1039 and defeated the Mercians. his conquest of Deheubarth took longer 1055. His alliance with Earl AElfgar of Mercia, whose daughter he married, sustained a long struggle with Harold Godwinson, but Harold's attack on his court at Rhuddlan 1062 led to Gruffydd's death at the hands of his own men and the destruction of his territorial dominion.
Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP was born. He was the son of Llywelyn Seisyll AP and Angharad NN----. Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP married Edith NN----, daughter of Aelfgar and Aelfigifu NN----, circa 1057. Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP died.

     Edith NN---- was the daughter of Aelfgar and Aelfigifu NN----. Edith NN---- married Prince Griffith Llywelyn AP, son of Llywelyn Seisyll AP and Angharad NN----, circa 1057. Edith NN---- married an unknown person prob. 1064. She died.

     Of age 1051, Earl of East Anglia 1053, Earl of Mercia 1057, banished 1058. Aelfgar married Aelfigifu NN----. Aelfgar was born. He was the son of Leofric and Godgifu. Aelfgar died.

     Aelfigifu NN---- married Aelfgar, son of Leofric and Godgifu. Aelfigifu NN---- died.

     Leofric was the son of Leofwine. Founder of the church of Coventry, seen as thegn from 1005, "dux" from 1026, Earl of Mercia by 1032. Leofric married Godgifu. Leofric died at Bromley, county Stafford, England.

     Godgifu married Leofric, son of Leofwine. Godgifu died. Sister of Thorold of Buckingham, sheriff of Lincolnshire. Godgifu's ancestry is uncertain, but she was evidently of an old, noble family. she is the "Lady Godiva" of legend.

      Lady Godiva, fl. 1040-80, was an English noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband, Earl Leofric of Mercia, to lighten the taxes on the townspeople. In one version, she was observed by only a tailor, the original Peeping Tom, who was struck blind.

"Among his other good deeds in this life, he and his wife, the noble countess Godgiva, who was a devout worshipper of God, and one who loved the ever-virgin St. Mary, entirely constructed at their own cost the monastery there [Coventry], well endowed it with land, and enriched it with ornaments to such an extent, that no monastery could be then found in England possessing so much gold, silver, jewels, and precious stones."

John of Worcester, Chronicle

In this annal for 1057, the death of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, one of the three great earls of eleventh-century England, is recorded. A powerful political figure, it was Leofric who supported Harold's claim to the throne on the death of his father Cnut in 1035 and who averted civil war by mediating the quarrel between Edward the Confessor and Earl Godwin in 1051. Both Leofric and his wife, Godgifu, whose name means "God's Gift," were benefactors of the church, most notably the monastery at Coventry.

The legendary story of Lady Godiva is found in the Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover (died 1236). There he recounts that her husband, in exasperation over being implored to reduce the onerous taxes on the citizens of Coventry, agreed to do so if she would ride naked through the marketplace. This she did, covered only by her long hair:

A.D.1057...."Having founded this monastery by the advice of his wife the noble countess Godiva, he [Leofric], at the prayer of a religious woman, placed monks therein, and so enriched them with lands, woods, and ornaments, that there was not found in all England a monastery with such an abundance of gold and silver, gems and costly garments. The countess Godiva, who was a great lover of Gods's mother, longing to free the town of Coventry from the oppression of a heavy toll, often with urgent prayers besought her husband, that from regard to Jesus Christ and his mother, he would free the town from that service, and from all other heavy burdens; and when the earl sharply rebuked her for foolishly asking what was so much to his damage, and always forbade her ever more to speak to him on the subject; and while she on the other hand, with a woman's pertinacity, never ceased to exasperate her husband on that matter, he a last made her this answer, 'Mount your horse, and ride naked, before all the people, through the market of the town, from one end to the other, and on your return you shall have your request.' On which Godiva replied, "But will you give me permission, if I am willing to do it?' 'I will,' said he. Whereupon the countess, beloved of God, loosed her hair and let down her tresses, which covered the whole of her body like a veil, and then mounting her horse and attended by two knights, she rode through the market-place, without being seen, except her fair legs; and having completed the journey, she returned with gladness to her astonished husband, and obtained of him what she had asked; for earl Leofric freed the town of Coventry and its inhabitants from the aforesaid service, and confirmed what he had done by a charter."

Roger of Wendover, Flowers of History

A fourteenth-century chronicle says that, as a result, Leofric did excuse the town of all taxes except those on horses. A later chronicle adds that Godiva requested the townspeople to remain indoors during her ride. In the seventeenth-century, Peeping Tom became part of the legend, being struck blind or dead when he looked out his window. By the eighteenth-century, the story had assumed its present form, and by the nineteenth, its Victorian expression pictured above.
     
Two bibliographic notes:
Sometime before his death in 1095, Wulfstan, bishop of the cathedral at Worcester, ordered a monk there to write a history of England. It traditionally has been assumed that this chronicle was written to 1118 by Florence, but it seems more likely that the Chronicle of Chronicles was compiled from 1124 to 1140 by another monk, John, using the material collected by Florence and that authorship should be ascribed to John of Worcester.

Both Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris were monks of St. Albans. Roger of Wendover began writing his Flores sometime after 1202, possibly as late as 1231, and continued it until 1234. From 1202, the material has no other surviving literary authority. More than half of Roger's work provided the basis for Matthew's more popular Chronica Majora, which he presented in abbreviated form as his own Flores Historiarum. Deleting some passages and adding others, Matthew Paris omits, in his retelling of the story, that Lady Godiva was accompanied by two knights and adds that her husband regarded her unseen ride as a miracle.
     
References: The Chronicle of John of Worcester: The Annals from 450 to 1066 (1995) edited by R. R. Darlington and P. McGurk, translated by Jennifer Bray and P. McGurk (Oxford Medieval Texts); Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History (1849) translated by J. A. Giles (Bohn's Antiquarian Library); The Flowers of History Collected by Matthew of Westminster (1853) translated by C. D. Yonge (Bohn's Antiquarian Library); Historical Writing in England c.550 to c.1307 (1974) by A. Gransden. and - 1992 Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.l. She was born circa 1010.

     Leofwine died.

     Prince of North Wales 980-1023, King of Deheubarth and Gwynedd. Llywelyn Seisyll AP married Angharad NN----, daughter of Maredudd AP Owain, in 994. Llywelyn Seisyll AP died.

     Angharad NN---- was the daughter of Maredudd AP Owain. Angharad NN---- died. She married Llywelyn Seisyll AP in 994.

     Maredudd AP Owain died.

     Humphrey de Bohun VI Earl of Hereford was the son of Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford and Maud D`eu or deLusignan. Humphrey de Bohun VI Earl of Hereford married Eleanor de Braiose, daughter of William de Braiose and Eve or Eva Marshal, between 15 February 1247 and 1248. Humphrey de Bohun VI Earl of Hereford died on 27 October 1265.¹

     Eleanor de Braiose was the daughter of William de Braiose and Eve or Eva Marshal. Eleanor de Braiose died. She married Humphrey de Bohun VI Earl of Hereford, son of Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford and Maud D`eu or deLusignan, between 15 February 1247 and 1248.

     Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford married Maud D`eu or deLusignan, daughter of Raoul D`Exoudun seigneur of Issouden in Poitou, 7th Count of Eu, & Baron Hastings of Sussex and Alice of Eu.¹ Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford was born by 1208.¹ He was the son of Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215 and Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville. Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford died on 24 September 1275.¹

     Maud D`eu or deLusignan married Humphrey de Bohun V Earl of Hereford, son of Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215 and Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville.<sup>1</sup> Maud D`eu or deLusignan was born. She was the daughter of Raoul D`Exoudun seigneur of Issouden in Poitou, 7th Count of Eu, & Baron Hastings of Sussex and Alice of Eu.<sup>2</sup> Maud D`eu or deLusignan died.¹

     William de Braiose died.

     Eve or Eva Marshal died.

     Magna Charta Surety, 1215, Sheriff of Kent, 5th Earl of Hereford, 1200, Hereditary Constable of England. HENRY de BOHUN, the Surety, was born before 1177. He became the first Earl of Hereford of this family, for he was so created by the Charter of King John, dated 28 April 1199. Even though he took the Barons' side against the King, on becoming Earl of Hereford he had promised that he would never make any claim against John or his heirs, on the basis of a Charter given to his great uncle Roger by Henry II. The office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father, but he seems to have played no other active part in John's government. As he took a prominent part with the Barons against King John, his lands were confiscated, but he received them again at the granting of Magna Charta. Having been excommunicated along with the other Barons, he did not return to his allegiance on the decease of King John, but became one of the commanders in the Army of Louis the Dauphin, at the Battle of Lincoln, and was taken prisoner by William Marshall. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincey and other Magna Charta Barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1220, and died on the passage 1 June 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey in Gloucestershire.
His wife, Maud FitzGeoffrey, was the daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Baron de Mandeville, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye.
The name of Bohun suggests Hereford. Unfortunately, Hereford Castle no longer exists. It was built in 1048, and apparently consisted of a moat and bailey. The mound has been leveled to the ground, but the bailey is outlined by high banks. One report has it that all that remains is a platform and a piece of a ditch.
The Castle was once situated near the present Bishop's Palace. It was seriously battered in an attack in 1055, but it was restored, and was again in use in 1067. The site which it now occupies is a public garden, gay with shrubbery and flowers. An ornamental lake indicates where once was the moat, but the outlines of the walls are shown only by grass covered ridges.

Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215 died.¹ He married Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville.^1,2 Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215 was born in 1176.¹ He was the son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon. Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215 died on 1 June 1220.¹

     Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville married Henry de Bohun Magna Charta Surety - 1215, son of Humphrey de Bohun IV and Margaret de Huntingdon.^1,2 Maud Fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville died.