ROSAMOND  , known as " The

Fair " (d. c . 1176), mistress of Henry II., king of England, is believed to have been the daughter of Walter de Clifford of the family of Fitz-Ponce . The evidence for the paternity is, however, only an entry of a statement made by the jurors of the manor of Corfham in a Hundred Roll of the second year of the reign of Edward I . (1274), great grandson of Henry II . Rosamond is said to have been Henry's mistress secretly for several years, but was openly acknowledged by him only when he imprisoned his wife Eleanor of Acquitaine as a punishment for her encouragement of her sons in the rebellion of 1173-74 . She died in or about 1176, and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar . The body was removed by order of St Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, in 1r9r, and was, seemingly, reinterred in the chapter house . The story that she was poisoned by Queen Eleanor first appears in the French Chronicle of London in the 14th century . The romantic details of the labyrinth at Wood-stock, and the clue which guided King Henry II. to her bower, were the inventions of story-writers of later times . There is no evidence for the belief that she was the mother of Henry's natural son William Longsword, earl of Salisbury .