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Clifford

Anglo-Norman family descended from Richard Fitzponce. His son, Walter, adopted the name Clifford when he acquired Clifford Castle in Herefordshire by marriage. Clifford was the father of Fair Rosamond, Henry II's mistress.

According to popular legend, she was kept by the king in a secret tower at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, in the heart of a labyrinth which only he could thread. On her death in 1176 she was buried in Godstow nunnery, near Oxford; there is little foundation for the legend that she was murdered by order of Queen Eleanor.



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I have a letter from my brother-in-law, Sir Clifford Williams, of Clifford Hall.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
Moreover, at a place in Yorkshire, England, Burton constable by name, a certain sir clifford constable has in his possession the skeleton of a Sperm Whale, but of moderate size, by no means of the full-grown magnitude of my friend King Tranquo's.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
If Clifford were to find her here, it might disturb him
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