Editing Rosamund Clifford (section)

=== Early life ===
[[File:Clifford Castle ruins.jpg|left|thumb|The ruins of [[Clifford Castle]], where Clifford grew up]]
Rosamund Clifford was the daughter of [[Walter de Clifford (died 1190)|Walter de Clifford]], a [[marcher lord]], and his wife Margaret de Toeni.<ref>{{Cite ODNB |last1=Archer |first1=T. A. |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5661 |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |last2=Hallam |first2=Elizabeth |date=2004 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |pages=ref:odnb/5661 |chapter=Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund] |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5661 |access-date=2023-03-23 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}</ref> Her date of birth is uncertain. Some sources place it in 1140 or possibly even earlier, possibly due to the traditional identification of Rosamund as the mother of at least one of Henry II's illegitimate children (William the Longespee and Geoffrey, the archbishop of York) - indicating that she had already become Henry II's mistress by the early 1150s. On the other hand, [[Gerald of Wales]] describes her as a ''puella'' (a girl or a young woman) at the time of her death in 1176.<ref>De Principis Instructione, Distinctio 3, Chapter 2</ref> She was certainly of age by 1166. Rosamund had three brothers, [[Walter de Clifford (died 1221)|Walter]] ({{circa|1160{{snd}}1221}}), Richard and Gilbert, and two sisters: Amice, and Lucy.

Her name likely came from the [[Latin]] phrase ''rosa mundi'', meaning "rose of the world."<ref>Anthony à Wood ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=L0IPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA341 The life and times of Anthony Wood: antiquary, of Oxford, 1632–1695, described by himself]''. Printed for the Oxford historical society, at the Clarendon press, 1891. Page 341.</ref> Clifford was first raised at her father's Clifford Castle, then sent to a [[convent]] of [[Benedictine]] [[nun]]s in [[Godstow Abbey]] for education.<ref name="Bingham">[https://books.google.com/books?id=AiSkGUrSrEMC&dq=rosamund+clifford&pg=PA66 Bingham, Jane. ''The Cotswolds: A Cultural History'', Oxford University Press, 2010] {{ISBN|9780195398755}}</ref>