Editing Rosamund Clifford (section)

=== Later life and death ===
[[File:Godstow Abbey ruins - geograph.org.uk - 1779065.jpg|thumb|The ruins of Godstow Abbey]]
When her relationship with the king ended, Rosamund retired to [[Godstow Abbey]].<ref name=":0" /> She died there around 1176, before the age of 40, and she was buried there.<ref name=":0" /> Her death was commemorated at [[Hereford Cathedral]] on 6 July, the same day on which Henry II died, 13 years after her.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} The king and the Clifford family paid for her tomb to be cared for by the [[Benedictine]] [[nun]]s of the [[convent]].<ref name=":0" /> Her resting place became a popular [[shrine]] among locals, which was noticed by [[Hugh of Lincoln]], the [[Bishop of Lincoln]] in 1191. Seeing the flowers and candles that covered the tomb, he ordered her remains to be moved and buried outside, "with the rest, that the [[Christianity|Christian]] religion may not grow into contempt, and that other women, warned by her example, may abstain from illicit and adulterous intercourse".<ref name=":0" /> Complying with the bishop's request, Clifford's body was moved to the cemetery by the nuns' [[chapter house]] and was destroyed during the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] (1536–1541) under [[Henry VIII]].<ref>Cole, William. ''The Unfortunate Royal Mistresses, Rosamond Clifford, and Jane Shore, Concubines to King Henry the Second, and Edward the Fourth'', London, 1825 [https://books.google.com/books?id=bqZWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8 p. 8]</ref> The ruins of the abbey still stand and are open to the public.

[[Paul Hentzner]], a German traveller who visited England around 1599, recorded that her faded tombstone inscription read in part:<ref>Hentzner, Paul. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080821150435/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hentzner/paul/travels/chapter1.html ''Travels in England during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'']</ref>
{{Verse translation|lang=la
|... Adorent,
Utque tibi detur requies Rosamunda precamur.
|lang2=en
|Let them adore,
And we pray that rest be given to you, Rosamund.}}
Followed by a [[rhyming]] [[epitaph]]:
{{Verse translation|lang=la
|Hic jacet in tumba Rosamundi non Rosamunda,
:Non redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet.
|lang2=en
|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.
|attr1=Quoted by Hentzner, ''Travels in England''}}
Accounts from the time of its destruction report that, along with other engravings, the tomb contained the depiction of a [[chalice]].<ref name=":0" />