The beautiful Maureen O'Hara stars as Lady Godiva of Coventry in a splendid Technicolor rendering of the famous eleventh century Saxon-Norman conflict. When Saxon nobleman Leofric (George Nader) takes Godiva (O'Hara) as his bride, he thwarts a plan for him to marry a Norman woman. This leads the scheming Normans to attempt to increase their hold over King Edward. In the meantime, Earl Godwin (Torin Thatcher) resists the Norman influence