This page is for the English princess, for the Neopagan name for the Goddess see Robert Cochrane.
Background
Goda of England or Godgifu. (French: Godjifu; the Old English name Godgifu or Godgyfu meant "gift of God", Godiva was the Latinised. Version; 1004 – c 1047) was the daughter of King Ethelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy, and sister of King Edward the Confessor.
Career
Ralph the Timid, earl of Hereford. Walter III, Count of the Vexin (d1063), married Biota (d1063), daughter of Herbert I of Maine, they both died in suspicious circumstances in the captivity of William Duke of Normandy, who in 1066 defeated Harold Godwinson and became William I of England. Fulk (d1068)
This marriage was childless.
After the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror, the lands owned by Goda in Buckinghamshire were given to the Flemish-Norman knight Bertram de Verdun, lord of Farnham Royal, and the Breton knight Raoul, count of Fougèresearch