According to legend, the first ever "peeping Tom" was looking at this wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia
The legend 
of the nude ride is first recorded in the 13th century, in the Flores ... Just one 
person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom,... [DOC] [TLE] Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia.