Rose of Burford

Rose de Burford was a 14th-century merchant and business woman in the City of London, England. She was born into prominent merchant family of Romeyn. Her father was a wealthy London wool and spice merchant and alderman of the City of London.

She married John of Burford, Sheriff of London and a wealthy merchant in wool and cloth. Rose helped her husband in business, and after his death she assumed full management of the business and also acquired extensive properties. At the request of Queen Isabella (1295 – 1358) she made a cope decorated in coral to be sent to the Pope as a gift. Rose also managed to secure repayment, out of customs due on her own wool shipped out of London, of the loan her husband made to the Crown.