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	Rosamund de Clifford@Everything2.com
		No two sources appear to give the same year of birth for the fair Rosamund; the various estimates of which range from the year 1137 to 1150, but it is known that she was born at Clifford Castle in the upper reaches of the Wye Valley within the Welsh Marches.
		Rosamund who by all accounts was a strikingly attractive young woman naturally impressed king Henry who promptly installed her as his mistress at his residence of Woodstock Palace in Oxfordshire.
		Rosamund Clifford is traditionally regarded as having been the mother of two of Henry II's sons, namely Geoffrey Plantagenet, Archbishop of York, and William de Longespee, 1st Earl of Salisbury.
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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Rosamund was the daughter of marcher lord Walter de Clifford and his wife Margaret, who had adopted the surname after taking possession of Clifford Castle on the River Wye.
		Unsurprisingly calling Rosamund a harlot, the bishop ordered her remains removed from the church: instead, she was to be buried outside the church 'with the rest, that the Christian religion may not grow into contempt, and that other women, warned by her example, may abstain from illicit and adulterous intercourse'.
		Rosamund is mentioned and is credited as the mother of a would-be nun of the same name in Lynsay Sands' romance novel, "Always." While she was not truly featured as a character in the novel, Henry II was as he was featured as the nun's father.
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	rosamund clifford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rosamund Clifford (born about 1150; died about 1176), often called "The Fair Rosamund" or the "Rose of the World," was the long-time mistress of King Henry II of England.
		Henry and Rosamund's family paid for her tomb in the choir of the convent's church and an endowment for it to be tended by the nuns, and it became a popular local shrine until 1191 (two years after Henry died).
		Traditionally, Rosamund Clifford was said to have been the mother of two of Henry II's sons, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, and William, Earl of Salisbury, but tradition also repeated the stories about her labyrinthine bower and her being poisoned by Eleanor.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /rosamund_clifford.html (618 words)

	Rosamund Clifford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosamund Clifford (born about 1150; died about 1176), often called "The Fair Rosamund" or the "Rose of the World," was the long-time mistress of King Henry II of England, famous in English folklore.
		Henry and the Clifford family paid for her tomb in the choir of the convent's church and an endowment for it to be tended by the nuns, and it became a popular local shrine until 1191.
		Her tomb was moved outside of the abbey church itself to the cemetery at the nuns' chapter house next to it, where it could still be visited until it was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII of England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosamund_Clifford (703 words)

	Rosamund Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rosamund Clifford (born about 1150 ; died about 1176), often called "The Fair Rosamund" or the "Rose of the World," was the long-time mistress of King Henry II of England.
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		History of Clifford family A brief history of various members of the Clifford family, including Lady Anne who is celebrated for her diary and her tireless restoration of her properties in Cumbria and North Yorkshire which were badly damaged in the Civil War.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Rosamund_Clifford.html (883 words)

	Rosamund Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rosamund Clifford (born about 1150 ; died about 1176) often called "The Fair Rosamund" or "Rose of the World " was the mistress of King Henry II of England.
		Henry and Rosamund's family paid for tomb in the choir of the convent's and an endowment for it to be by the nuns and it became a local shrine until 1191 (two years after died).
		Traditionally Rosamund Clifford was said to have the mother of two of Henry II's Geoffrey Archbishop of York and William Earl Salisbury but tradition also repeated the stories her labyrinthine bower and her being poisoned Eleanor.
	www.freeglossary.com /Rosamund_Clifford (872 words)

	The Fair Rosamund Clifford from Herefordshire, mistress to King Henry II
		There Rosamund is thought to have died from natural causes and was buried in the local church.
		Clifford Castle where the fair Rosamund once dwelt is but a an overgrown ruin where animals graze.
		In the stormy days of Norman and Plantagenet, the noble family of de Clifford ranked among the great barons of the realm, and held extensive possessionss upon the marches of Wales, for example in 1222 Dymock in Gloucestershire was given by Henry III to Walter de Clifford, the brother of the Fair Rosamund:
	www.hereford-heritage.com /Rosamund.html (662 words)

	Rosamund Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The daughter of Walter Clifford (who assumed thesurname after taking possession of Clifford Castle on the river Wye), she firstmet the king when her father performed some service for him in the course of Henry's campaigning in Wales.
		Henry and Rosamund's family paid for her tomb in the choir of the convent's church and an endowment for it to be tended by thenuns, and it became a popular local shrine until 1191 (two years after Henry died).
		Traditionally, Rosamund Clifford was said to have been the mother of two of Henry II's sons, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York, andWilliam, Earl of Salisbury, but tradition also repeated the stories about her labyrinthine bower and her being poisoned byEleanor.
	www.therfcc.org /rosamund-clifford-37099.html (550 words)

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		Clifford Castle was a castle of the invasion, and there were many on the Welsh border.
		Clifford Castle is one of 5 castles mentioned in the Domesday Survey and was built by William fitz Osbern on wasteland formerly held by Browning, between
		Clifford was granted by the Crown to the Mortimers of Wigmore.
	www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk /castles/castlesdata_az/clifford_castle.htm (1812 words)

	The Fair Rosamund Clifford from Herefordshire mistress to King Henry II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Fair Rosamund Clifford from Herefordshire mistress to King Henry II The Fair Rosamund 1140-1176
		Rosamund (Rose of the World) Clifford was born in Herefordshire near to the Welsh border, the daughter of Walter de Clifford of the family Fitz-Ponce.
		Rosamund eventually retired from Woodstock to a nunnery at Godstow where she died from natural causes and was buried in the local church.
	www.dulwichdynamo.homechoice.co.uk /Rosamund.html (201 words)

	CLIFFORD FAMILY HISTORY
		Walter de Clifford's daughter Rosamund Clifford (born about 1139 died 1176) was the mistress of Henry II and had a child by him.
		The 1st Clifford in America was George Clifford of the parish of Arnold in Nottingham.
		John H. Clifford, was attorney-general and governor of Massachusetts as well as president of Harvard College and the Boston & Providence Railroad Co. The Clifford household was itself extremely complex, for John had been married twice previously, and his current wife, Bridget, at least once; moreover, there were children from all of their earlier unions.
	www.whatreallyhappened.com /pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/family/clifford.html (1093 words)

	Fair Rosamund
		Fair Rosamund was the beloved mistress of King Henry II who hid her in a secret bower in Woodstock, where she was watched over by the King's knight, Sir Thomas.
		Leofric mentored Rosamund, teaching her the rules of the Game and how to use a sword, so that she would never be afraid of menacing swordsmen coming for her head.
		Rosamund returned to England where she lived as a nun near Westminster; in 1259 a worker on the contruction of the Abbey of Westminster accidentally fell to his death, and woke up on a mortuary slab, immortal.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/rosamund2.htm (807 words)

	About Clifford
		Clifford lies in the bend of the River Wye between Hay-on-Wye and Bredwardine, and is located mainly on and around a headland looking over the river.
		Walter took the name of ‘de Clifford’ in about 1127 and was the head of a family often to be found fighting in France or in Scotland, a family whose boast it was that “of half a score of successive barons only one had been unhappy enough to die in his bed”.
		Clifford had collapsed as a local centre by the 15th century, and most traces of its pomp have vanished, but its inclusion on the earliest known map of Britain testifies to its lost importance.
	www.cliffordparish.org.uk /about.html (3141 words)

	Rosamund Clifford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some modern writers, including (Click link for more info and facts about Alison Weir) Alison Weir, are of the opinion that Rosamund had no children; but whether this means she never gave birth or merely that none of her children survived remains unclear.
		Not much is known about Rosamund, but she is discussed in books about (Queen of France as the wife of Louis VII; that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204)) Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry's Queen.
		During the (Click link for more info and facts about Elizabethan era) Elizabethan era, the stories gained popularity, but the Ballad of Fair Rosamund by Thomas Delaney and the Complaint of Rosamund by (Click link for more info and facts about Samuel Daniel) Samuel Daniel (1592) are both purely fictional.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rosamund_clifford.htm (533 words)

	Clifford Castle
		Clifford castle stands on an eastward flowing section of the River Wye near to the current boundary between England and Wales.
		The land of Clifford was at that time waste, but under the earls of Hereford and their successors this waste was brought to blossom with castle, borough and church.
		Half a mile to the south are the remains of the castle borough with the church of Clifford.
	www.castles99.ukprint.com /Essays/clifford.html (955 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rosamund Clifford (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alison Weir (born 1951) is a popular British writer of history books for the general public, mostly in the form of biographies about British kings and queens.
		Events Ghazni is burned by the princes of Ghur Geoffrey of Anjou dies, and succeeded by his son Henry, aged 18.
		In that year, two years after Henry's death, St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln, while visiting Godstow noticed Rosamund's tomb right in front of the high altar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rosamund-Clifford (1407 words)

	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg61 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Henry married Rosamund (Joan) CLIFFORD in Not married.
		Rosamund (Joan) CLIFFORD [Parents] was born CIR 1137.
		Rosamund married Henry 11 FITZEMPRESS King of England in Not married.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg61.htm (835 words)

	Rosamund Clifford
		Notes: Romantic pieces based on the tale of Rosamund Clifford seem to have been fairly common, but I have lumped them all here, excerpt for "Fair Rosamund," on the grounds that few can be demonstrated to be traditional.
		The facts are these: Henry II truly did marry Eleanor of Aquitaine, and he truly did have an affair with Rosamund Clifford.
		Rosamund was the daughter of Walter FitzPonce, who took the surname Clifford upon gaining the title of Clifford Castle (by marriage) some time before 1138.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/Perc2154.html (326 words)

	Blenheim: The King's houses \| British History Online
		The spring and pond preserved as Fair Rosamund's well, west of the site of the king's houses, was the focus of a separate group of 12th-century buildings, called in the 13th century Everswell, but persistently associated with Henry II's mistress and later known as Rosamund's well or bower.
		In the 13th century the buildings stood within an enclosure entered through a gatehouse, and comprised, besides Rosamund's chamber, chambers for the king and queen, a chapel, cloistered pools, and gardens; a larger and smaller pool were mentioned in 1235-6, and in 1239 a great pool was added.
		The buildings at Rosamund's well continued to be used as a rural retreat by the court, and were maintained into the 16th century; a new chamber was built there in the 1360s, Rosamund's tower was repaired by Edward IV, and in 1571-2 a fallen building there was rebuilt in timber.
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		Rosamund, daughter of Walter de Clifford, was the much-loved mistress of King Henry II.
		Rosamund begged him to let her go with him, but he refused, as he wished her to lead a life befitting a lady.
		Rosamund also makes her presence known by knocking wine bottles off tables and standing behind people in the bar area, which was once a bedroom.
	members.lycos.co.uk /troutinn/history.htm (1530 words)

	Clifford Castle
		The land of Clifford was at that time waste, but under the earls of Hereford and their successors this waste was brought to blossom with castle, borough and church.
		In 1144 he still acknowledged Roger as his overlord of Clifford, but by the end of the war he had made himself de facto lord of Clifford and refused to return castle and lordship to their rightful owners.
		Half a mile to the south are the remains of the castle borough with the church of Clifford.
	www.castlewales.com /clifford.html (1039 words)

	Sharon Kay Penman: Time and Chance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During this period, Penman has the opportunity to examine Henry's friendship with Becket, his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine and his love affair with Rosamund Clifford.
		If Time and Chance were a romance instead of an historical novel, this period would have been shown as one of nuptial bliss, however, Penman depicts Henry's affair with Rosamund Clifford.
		At the same time, Henry's battle with Becket and his love affair with Rosamund Clifford were not the only major events of his reign, and Penman shows us some of the other activities through the eyes of the fictitious Ranulf, living among the Welsh.
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	Woodstock, Oxfordshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodstock was the scene of King Henry II's courtship of Rosamund Clifford (Fair Rosamund).
		The market of the town was established when King Henry II gave Woodstock a Royal charter in 1279.
		The greater part of the art treasures and curios were sold off in 1886, and the great library collected by Charles Spencer, earl of Sunderland, the son-in-law of the first duke of Marlborough, in 1881.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodstock,_England (491 words)

	Georgette-Heyer.com - Penhallow
		Rosamund obviously came because Clifford had begged her to; and the younger Penhallows held that the Vicar came because Sybilla's scones and cakes were very much richer than any baked under Mrs Venngreen's auspices.
		The apprehension that he would appear at the party in his aged dressing-gown had induced her seriously to consider the advisability of retiring to bed with an unnamed illness.
		Tea was served in the Long drawing-room, and the first guests to arrive were Clifford and Rosamund, Rosamund looking cool and remote in one of her excellent tailor-made flannel suits, and Clifford overflowing with geniality, and professing the greatest satisfaction on beholding his uncle in such robust health.
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	Blenheim Mineral Water
		Blenheim Water is part of a centuries-old tradition which began in the twelfth century when Henry II built a pleasure pool for his mistress, Rosamund Clifford, here at Blenheim.
		Rosamund's Well can be seen to this day and the water has been highly valued ever since.
		When demand for Blenheim Water outstripped supply in recent years, a further source was found in the Park and a bottling plant was established.
	www.blenheimpalace.com /water/blenheim.htm (119 words)

	Riddley Walker - Annotations - Chapter 12
		There is a legend which says that Rosamund Clifford, Henry II's unfortunate mistress, lived here, and one of the two surviving towers is known as "Fair Rosamund's Bower"; the towers in question, along with the remaining fortifications, were not built until the fourteenth century, so this seems unlikely.
		It is however almost certain that Eleanor never met Rosamund, and this prospect of blood-letting is an overlay echoing ancient beliefs attached to the rose and the love escapades of ancient Goddesses.
		The labyrinth may have been a maze of rose-bushes, and Rosamund's bower was assuredly decked with rambling roses, tokens of the king's affection.
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