Fair Rosamond

Fair Rosamond (c.1140 – c. 1176), also spelled Rosamund, was a daughter of Lord Clifford (1113–1190) and the mistress of Henry II, king of England, who occupied a bower near Woodstock and kept her there in the heart of a labyrinth. It was a secret bower, the access to which was by a labyrinth, the windings of which only the king could thread. However, her retreat was discovered by Queen Eleanor, who poisoned her. Her name figures in English folklore.

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