No. 69.
FAIR ROSAMOND.
Black and scarlet dress. Scarlet mantle. Holding a golden cup in one
hand, and the cover in the other.
THE second daughter of Walter Fitz-Pons or Poyntz, who took the name of Clifford, having married Margaret de Toeni, the heiress of the Clifford family. The pitiful story of ‘the Rose of the World,’ her amours with Henry II. of England, the beauteous labyrinth in which he concealed the sweet flower, and her murder by Queen Eleanor, are amongst the best known of the romances of early English history; and few even endeavour to disentangle truth from fiction. All is doubtful, even dates; but it is said Rosamond was buried at Godston, near Oxford, by her royal lover. She had two sons—William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife; and Geoffrey, Archbishop of York.
No. 70.
THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF CARNARVON.