Leofric "the Great" Earl of Mercia

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Leofric, Earl of Mercia from Wikipedia.
Leofric was the son of Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce & his wife Alwara. Leofric may have married more than once. His famous wife Godiva survived him and may have been a second or later wife. Leofric died "at a good old age" in 1057 at his estate at Kings Bromley in Staffordshire. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, he died on 30 September, but the chronicler of Worcester gives the date as 31 August. Both agree that he was buried at Coventry.[Baxter, Earls of Mercia, p. 31] Ælfgar, Leofric's only known child, succeeded Leofric as Earl of Mercia.

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Gruffdd ap Llwelyn, prince of North Wales, king of Gwynedd & Powys, 1039, and of Dehubarth, 1055, slain 5 Aug 1063, married as her first husband Edith or Ældgyth, daughter of Elgar (Ælfgar), Earl of Mercia 1057 son of Leofric, son of Leofwin (d. before 1032), Earl of Mercia.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 176:2

Leofric married Godgifu. (Godgifu was born about 1010 and died before 1085.)