1191, two years after Henry's death. Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop of Lincoln, while visiting Godstow, noticed Rosamund's tomb right in front of the high altar. The tomb was laden with flowers and candles, demonstrating that the local people were still praying there. Calling Rosamund a harlot, the bishop ordered her remains removed from the church. Her tomb was moved outside the abbey church to the cemetery at the nuns' chapter house next to it, where it could still be visited; but it was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. Paul Hentzner, a German traveller who visited England c.1599, records that her faded tombstone inscription read in part:... Adorent, Utque tibi detur requies Rosamunda precamur.("Let them adore ... and we pray that rest be given to you, Rosamund.") Followed by a punning epitaph: Hic jacet in tumba Rosamundi non RosamundaNon redolet sed olet, quae redolere solet.("Here in the tomb lies a rose of the world, not a pure rose; She who used to smell sweet, still smells — but not sweet.") Other burials Walter de Clifford (died 1190) Walter de Clifford (died 1221) Isabella de Braose Gallery References Further reading External links Haunted Churches — Godstow Nunnery Monasteries in Oxford Areas of Oxford Populated places on the River Thames Ruins in Oxfordshire Benedictine nunneries in England Christianity in Oxford Christian monasteries established in the 12th century 1133 establishments in England 1539 disestablishments in England