A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rosamond

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ROSAMOND,

Daughter of Walter de Clifford, Lord Hereford, was the favourite mistress of Henry the Second. To conceal this amour from his jealous queen, Eleanor, Henry is said to have removed Rosamond to a labyrinth in Woodstock park, where, however, his wife discovered her and obliged her to take poison. Some authors declare that the fair Rosamond died at Godstow nunnery, near Oxford. She had two sons by Henry, William, sumamed Longsword, and Jeffrey, Archbishop of York.