Rosamund

Rosamund, wearing a crown, kneels in front of a reading desk, wrapping her hand around a skull as the body of her dead husband lies in the background.

After the defeat of her people to the Lombards and the subsequent beheading of her father, Rosamund was taken for wife by Alboin, the king of the Lombards. A cruel victor and husband, this latter reportedly once forced her to drink from her father’s skull. The legend has it that she had him murdered by her lover.