Rosamund's story first appears in 14th century "French Chronicle of London", which purports to recount the confrontation with Queen Eleanor. In one version, Rosamund improbably is described as having been roasted between two fires, stabbed, and left to bleed to death in a bath of scalding water by the queen. During the Elizabethan era, stories claiming that she had been murdered by Eleanor of Aquitaine gained popularity; but the "Ballad of Fair Rosamund" by Thomas Deloney (1612) and the "Complaint of Rosamund" by Samuel Daniel (1592) are both purely fictional. Most medieval chroniclers acknowledged that, by 1173, Eleanor was held in close confinement, having raised her sons in rebellion against their father.