Como os prometí, en este post os contaré la leyenda de Lady Godiva, que me pareció interesante y curiosa. Famosa, entre otras cosas, por el nombre que lleva una conocida marca de bombones, "Godiva Chocolatier", llamada así en homenaje a esta figura y en la que sus cajas doradas de bombones con el dibujo de la condesa desnuda se han convertido en un souvenir típico de Bélgica.
As I promised you, in this post I will tell you Lady Godiva's legend, which seemed to me to be interesting and curious. Famous, among other things, for the name that takes a known brand of chocolates, "Godiva Chocolatier", call like that in honoring to this figure and in which his golden boxes of chocolates with the drawing of the nake countess have turned into a typical souvenir of Belgium.
Gervasia Helizonda Godiva de Chester, o Lady Godiva, fue una dama anglosajona del siglo XI, de la que se dice que fue muy bella y bondadosa, que estuvo casada con Leofric, conde de Chester y de Mercia y señor de Coventry. Esta dama, compadecida de los sufrimientos y apuros de sus vasallos, a los que su marido esquilmaba con tributos abusivos, se solidarizó con ellos. Construyó junto con su esposo, cuya buena administración es destacable, el monasterio de Coventry.
Gervasia Helizonda Godiva of Chester, or Lady Godiva, was an Anglo-Saxon lady of the 11th century, of whom it is said that it was very beautiful and kind, that she was married with Leofric, count of Chester and of Mercia and gentleman of Coventry. This lady harmonized with the sufferings and difficulties of his vassals, whom his husband was harvesting with improper taxes, solidarizó with them. He constructed together with his husband, whose good administration is prominent, Coventry's monastery.