Rosamund

The name Rosamund (also spelled Rosamond and Rosamunde) is a girls' name and can also be a family name (surname). Originally it combined the Germanic elements hros, meaning horse, and mund, meaning "protection". Later, it was influenced by the Latin phrases rosa munda, meaning "pure rose",^[1] and rosa mundi, meaning "rose of the world".^[2] "Rosamonda" is the Italian, "Rosamunde" is the German and "Rosemonde" the French form of the name.

People named Rosamund thereof include:

• Rosamund (wife of Alboin) (fl. sixth century), second wife of Alboin, King of the Germanic Lombards
• Rosamund Bartlett, American writer, scholar, translator and lecturer specializing in Russian literature
• Rosamund Clifford (before 1150–c. 1176), medieval beauty and longtime mistress of King Henry II
• Rosamund Greenwood (1907–1997), British actress
• Rosamund John (1913–1998), English actress
• Rosamund Kwan (born 1962), Chinese actress
• Rosamund Lupton (born 1964), British author
• Rosamund Pike (born 1979), English actress
• Rosamund Stanhope (1919–2005), British poet and teacher
• Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911), English poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson

References

1. "Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Rosamund". Retrieved 2009-02-22.
2. Clark, Andrew (1891). The life and times of Anthony Wood, antiquary, of Oxford, 1632–1695, described by himself. Volume I. Oxford: the Clarendon Press. p. 341. Retrieved 2009-02-22. Ultimately quoting Dives et pauper, London, 1493.