Paternal Family Tree: Clifford
Maternal Family Tree: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu 1030-1089
Before 1134 [her father] Walter Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 20] and [her mother] Margaret Isobel Tosny Baroness Clifford were married.
In 1136 Rosamund Clifford was born to Walter Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 23] and Margaret Isobel Tosny Baroness Clifford at Clifford Castle, Herefordshire [Map].
Around August 1165 King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England [aged 32] commenced his affair with Rosamund Clifford [aged 29] daughter of [her father] Walter Clifford 1st Baron Clifford [aged 52]. The location is reported by some sources to have been, possibly, Walter's house, or Rosamund's town, of Bredelais the location of which is unknown.
In 1176 Rosamund Clifford [aged 40] died at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire [Map]. She was buried at Godstow Abbey [Map]. Paul Hentzner, a German traveller who visited England around 1599, recorded that her faded tombstone inscription read in part: "... Adorent, Utque tibi detur requies Rosamunda precamur. Hic jacet in tumba Rosamundi non Rosamunda, Non redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet." i.e. "Let them adore, And we pray that rest be given to you, Rosamund. Here in the tomb lies the rose of the world, not a pure rose; She who used to smell sweet, still smells—but not sweet." Her tombstone was destroyed during the dissolution of the monasteries.
1853. William Bell Scott [aged 42]. "Fair Rosamond Alone in Her Bower".
1917. John William Waterhouse [aged 67]. "Fair Rosamund".
Kings Wessex: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Kings France: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 1 Grandfather: Pons Fitzpons
Grandfather: Richard Fitzpons
father: Walter Clifford 1st Baron Clifford
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Gloucester
Great x 1 Grandfather: Walter Gloucester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hamelin Balun
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adeliza or Eunice Balun
Grandmother: Matilda Gloucester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Hamelin de Balun Lord Abergavenny Balun
Great x 2 Grandfather: Dru de Balun
Great x 1 Grandmother: Emme or Bertha Balun
Rosamund Clifford
8 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger "The Spaniard" Tosny
Great x 1 Grandfather: Raoul Tosny
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ramon Borrell Count of Barcelona
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adelaide aka Godehildis Ramon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger I of Carcasonne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ermesinde of Carcassonne
Grandfather: Raoul Tosny
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Reginarids
Great x 3 Grandfather: Aumary Reginarids
Great x 2 Grandfather: Simon Montfort
Great x 3 Grandmother: Bertrade Unknown
Great x 1 Grandmother: Isabelle Montfort
Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Bardoul
mother: Margaret Isobel Tosny Baroness Clifford
7 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 2 Grandfather: Siward "Stout" Earl of Northumbria
Great x 1 Grandfather: Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Uchtred "The Bold" Earldorman of Northumbria
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ealdred Northumbria Earl Bernicia
Great x 2 Grandmother: Aelfflaed Northumbria
Grandmother: Adelise Northumbria 6 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 4 Grandfather: Baldwin Flanders II Count Boulogne 3 x Great Grandson of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Great x 3 Grandfather: Eustace Flanders I Count Boulogne 4 x Great Grandson of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adelina Gerulfing Countess Boulogne and Ponthieu
3 x Great Granddaughter of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lambert Flanders II Count Lens 4 x Great Grandson of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lambert "Bearded" Reginar I Count Louvain
Great x 3 Grandmother: Matilda Reginar Countess Boulogne 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 4 Grandmother: Gerberga Carolingian Duchess Lower Lorraine 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 1 Grandmother: Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon 5 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward "Elder" of the Anglo Saxons
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard "Good" II Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert "Magnificent" I Duke Normandy
8 x Great Grandson of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy 7 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor
Great x 2 Grandmother: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu
9 x Great Granddaughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor