Burials of English Kings

Burials of English Kings

2013-03-15 11:29:36
Arthurian
Post-Conquest Burials of Monarchs
Name
Death
Place of burial
Images
William I (the Conqueror) 1087 Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen, Normandy
William II (Rufus) 1100 Winchester Cathedral
Henry I 1135 Reading Abbey, Berkshire  
Stephen 1154 Faversham Abbey, Kent
Empress Matilda 1167 Rouen Cathedral, Normandy, France
Henry II 1189 Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France
Richard I 1199 Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France
(His heart was buried at Rouen)
John 1216 Worcester Cathedral
Henry III of England 1272 Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey[1]
Edward I 1307 Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey[1]
Edward II 1327 Gloucester Cathedral
Edward III 1377 Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey[1]
Richard II 1400 Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey[1]
Henry IV 1413 Canterbury Cathedral
Henry V 1422 Westminster Abbey
Henry VI 1471 Windsor Castle (reburied in St George's Chapel 1484)
Edward IV 1483 St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
Edward V ?1483 traditionally believed murdered
and buried secretly in the Tower of London
Richard III 1485 Church of the Grey Friars, Leicester. Bones re-discovered under a carpark in 2012 to be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral.
Henry VII 1509 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey[2]
Henry VIII 1547 St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle
Edward VI 1553 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey
Lady Jane Grey 1554 St Peter ad Vincula (London), Tower of London
Mary I 1558 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey[2]
Elizabeth I 1603 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey[2]
 
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