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.
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