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ROSAMOND

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSAMOND  , known as " The

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Fair " (d. c . 1176),
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mistress of Henry II., king of England, is believed to have been the daughter of Walter de Clifford of the
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family of Fitz-
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Ponce . The evidence for the paternity is, however, only an entry of a statement made by the jurors of the
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manor of Corfham in a
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Hundred Roll of the second
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year of the reign of
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Edward I . (1274),
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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
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rebellion of 1173-74 . She died in or about 1176, and was buried in the nunnery church of Godstow before the high altar . The
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body was removed by order of St
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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
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London in the 14th century . The romantic details of the labyrinth at Wood-stock, and the
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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
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mother of Henry's natural son William Longsword,
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earl of Salisbury .

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