>
> The
> >immediate mental connection I made in the case of St Rosamund (and immediately
> >discarded as improbable) was with 'Fair Rosamund', the mistress of Henry II
> >supposedly murdered at the instigation of his wife and buried only a few miles
> >from the male Rosamund's place of veneration.
>
> This 'Fair Rosamund' - 'Rosa Mundi, non Rosa Munda' as one contemporary
> quipped - was apparently installed by Henry at the nunnery at Godstow, near
> the Trout Inn at the north end of Port Meadow, Oxford. Eleanor of Aquitaine
> is said to have tracked her down and poisoned her with an apple - very
> 'malum' in this case; and thus to have become the original of the wicked
> queen in 'Snow White'.
>
> Oriens.
>
Is there any hint that Rosamund might have been viewed popularly at the time as
innocent victim? I have in mind, as a possible comparison, the veneration of
Simon of Atherfield (Isle of Wight) (recorded 1211), if we are to believe the
recent theory that Simon was killed in a domestic quarrel with his wayward
wife.
Graham
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