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9:01 am
August 12, 2009
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Elizabeth I is at Westminster Abbey. She shares a crypt with her sister:
Mary I is at Westminster Abbey
Edward VI is at Westminster Abbey, in the Henry VII Lady Chapel
Henry VII and Elizabeth of York are at Westminster Abbey
Katharine of Aragon is at Peterborough Cathedral.
Arthur, Prince of Wales is at Worcester Cathedral.
Anne of Cleves is at Westminster Abbey. Her grave is reportedly difficult to find, but is tucked away behind an organ opposite of Edward the Confessor's shrine.
Katherine of Parr is at St Marys Chapel, Sudeley Castle.
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
2:12 pm
December 8, 2009
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To be honest, most are in the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula!!
Be daly prove you shalle me fynde,nTo be to you bothe lovyng and kynde,
12:15 pm
May 5, 2010
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Anne Boleyn – St Peter Ad Vincula, Tower of London
Catherine Howard – as above
Lady Jane Grey – as above
They were beheaded and they are in the same place. Why? Is this a place where there are the people who were beheaded?
6:27 pm
January 9, 2010
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Yes – The Tower of London served as a prison as well as fortress and royal residence. Anyone executed within its walls (or out on Tower Hill) was usually buried within the Towers' chapel, St Peter Ad Vincula. Well, their bodies anyway! Heads of traitors were usually displayed out on London Bridge as a warning before being dumped into the Thames after a while. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure there weren't any women who suffered that final indignity, certainly not Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard or Lady jane Grey. The remains of those beheaded were usually seen as property of the state and it was up to the state to provide burial arrangements. The Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula was the most convenient place.
Sir Thomas More's daughter Margaret, though, famously managed to get her fathers' head back after it had done its time out on London Bridge by bribing the guard, and had it later properly interred in the family vault.
12:28 pm
June 7, 2010
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For all you Tudors fan who like interesting facts, Henry VIII wanted a grand tomb built for himself and Jane Seymour when he died, with effigies, etc. However, at St. George's, Windsor, there is only a slab marking Henry's last resting place. According to David Starkey, there are some remains of Henry's tomb. There are copies of 4 brass candlesticks (where, I am not sure). The most intersting is Henry's black marble sarcophogus still exists. In St. Paul's Cathedral rests Admiral Lord Nelson inside Henry VIII's sarcaphogus. I've been to St. Paul's a few times, passed Nelson's tomb, and never knew it was connected to Henry VIII.
I want to add to the list of Tudor burials, Lady Elizabeth Boleyn (Anne's mother) is buried at St. Mary's Lambeth, which is now the Museum of Garden History, London.
There is a book in print titled Who's Buried Where? by Fred Delaney, updated by Ian Godfrey. I purchased my copy at Westminster Abbey bookshop. It has most of the Kings and Queens of England, aristorcats, the famous and infamous listed. A great reference guide for me, at least.
"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn
11:03 am
February 24, 2010
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I want to add the men who were accused of treason and murdered at the time of Anne's murder:
Her brother George Boleyn-St Peter Vincula Chapel on the Tower grounds.
Sir Francis Weston & Sir Henry Norris- Originally buried in same grave in theTower graveyard, but moved inside St Peter Vincula Chapel during construction of the Tower's Jewel House and The Waterloo Barracks.
Sir Henry's head is said to have been claimed by his family and is buried in a chapel at Ockwell Manor in Berkshire.
William Brereton & Mark Smeaton-buried in same grave in the Tower graveyard. Also moved inside St Peter Vincula Chapel during above construction.
Also: Jane Parker Boleyn-St Peter Vincula Chapel
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond-Framlingham Church, Suffolk
Thomas Cromwell-St Peter Vincula Chapel
Thomas Cranmer-Martry's Memorial, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
2:29 pm
June 19, 2009
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You start some great threads Wreckmaster.
Duchess, how interesting on Elisabeth Boleyn being buried in Lambeth as her husband is laid to rest in St. Peter's in Hever. I wonder why they are not together? Also Duchess, does your book say where Mary Boleyn is buried?
If it was not this, then it would be something else?
3:20 pm
June 7, 2010
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ipaud,
First, sadly, the book does not where Mary Boleyn is buried. I wish we could know.
Second, the Howards have a long association with St. Mary's Lambeth. Apparently, at one time, there is a Howard Chapel where many Howards were buried (I am not sure of the chapel still exists). I always felt that Elizabeth and Thomas were not buried together over some marital estrangement after Anne's and George's death.
"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn
9:31 am
June 19, 2009
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Hi Duchess,
I found this website (it does not have any information about Mary Boleyn)
From what i read, the church still exists.
If it was not this, then it would be something else?
8:38 pm
August 12, 2010
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Complete List of Resting Places:
Henry VII-Westminster Abbey
Elizabeth of York-Westminster Abbey, in the Lady Chapel Henry had built
Arthur Prince of Wales-Worcester Cathedral
Henry VIII-St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle
Thomas Wolsey-Leicester Abbey (now Abbey Park)
Sir Thomas More- Roper Vault of St. Dunstan's Church Canterbury
Thomas Cranmer-Ashes Scattered after Death
Thomas Cromwell-Originally Westminster Abbey now in Unmarked grave in Tyburn area
Catherine of Aragon-Peterborough Abbey
Elizabeth Blount-Thetford Priory
Henry FitzRoy-Howard family vault at Thetford Priory
Anne Boleyn- St Peter ad Vincula
Mary Boleyn- Hilton Foliat, Hungerford, Wiltshire, England.
Thomas Boleyn-St Peter's Church near Hever Castle
Elizabeth Howard(Boleyn)- Lambeth
Jane Seymore-St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle
Anne of Cleves-Wesminster Abbey
Catherine Howard- St Peter ad Vincula next to Anne
Thomas Culpeper- St Sepulchre-without NewGate Church in London
Lady Jane Rochford- St Peter ad Vincula
Catherine Parr-buried in St Mary's Chapel at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire.
Mary I-Wesminster Abbey (Below Elizabeth I)
Elizabeth I-Westminster Abbey (On top of Mary I)
Edward I-Westminster Abbey
and thats all I could think of.
There's also this weird thing though if you visit the place where Henry VIII is buried they will tell you this story of how his tomb was broken into even though its super hard to get into the volt, but anyhow his coffin was smashed and his skeleton was seen and there was still a few grey hairs (his beard) on his bony chin. So yeah. Creepy!
6:53 pm
October 31, 2010
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Somewhat off-topic, I thought that I heard that Anne's head was tucked under her arm in her “coffin” (arrowbox) upon her burial…maybe that's' just a myth.
Anyone know where James VI/I is buried? England or Scotland? I mean, I know that, technically, by the time we get to him we are WAAAAY outside the realm of Tudor, but he does sort of mark the end of the Tudor reign in England–even though he is Margaret's son.
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
3:50 am
September 14, 2010
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@ MegC I've read that James I was buried in the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth I was buried there, but he moved her remains to another part of the Abbey (as many have said above, she shares a crypt with her sister Mary). James also moved his mother from Peterborough Cathedral to Westminster Abbey.
Much suspected by me, nothing proved can be. (Queen Elizabeth I)
12:02 pm
January 9, 2010
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Yeah, James is buried in the Henry Vll Chapel in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth was originally laid to rest there but James had her moved in with Mary so he could eventually take her place in the vault to demonstrate his right to the English throne through his Tudor ancestors. At least he built Elizabeth a nice tomb though!
8:03 am
February 16, 2009
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Thanks for that brilliant list, AnneTheQueen, but Mary Boleyn is not buried at Hungerford, it is not known where she was buried but as she died at Rochford Hall in Essex she would not have been buried in Wiltshire. I suspect she was laid to rest at Rochford somewhere. It's sad that we don't know exactly where.
Debunking the myths about Anne Boleyn
12:39 pm
December 15, 2010
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Does anyone know why Elizabeth was entombed over Mary? I can't imagine both corpses would be in one coffin. Seems very disrespectful to me! Elizabeth being entombed over Mary seems disrespectful to Mary.
3:06 pm
November 18, 2010
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AnneTheQueene said:
Thomas Cromwell-Originally Westminster Abbey now in Unmarked grave in Tyburn area
That was Oliver Cromwell, not Thomas. As a convicted and executed traitor, Thomas would not have been buried in Westminster Abbey.
It's always bunnies.
11:11 pm
October 31, 2010
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If Cromwell was a convicted traitor and executed by the crown, wouldn't his bones be in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula along with Anne's and KH's and Jane Parker's and all the other “traitors”? Surely with 1500 skeletons, his was in there somewhere (not that we'll ever know which one). I mean, I know that way more than 1500 people were executed by the crown, but Cromwell was somewhat more high profile than the average man/woman. Seems like the pattern with St. Peter ad Vincula–lots of high profile people in there.
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
8:55 am
February 24, 2010
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MegC,
Thomas Cromwell is buried at St Peter Vincula.
Interesting tidbit: Charles I was beheaded, but buried at Windsor's St George Chapel in the same vault as Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
5:37 pm
January 9, 2010
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Sharon said:
MegC,
Thomas Cromwell is buried at St Peter Vincula.
Interesting tidbit: Charles I was beheaded, but buried at Windsor's St George Chapel in the same vault as Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
I always found it deeply ironic that Henry (who bent Parliament to his will) shares his final resting place with his great, great, great (?) nephew who was executed by his Parliament. Perhaps it was Thomas Cromwell who really got his revenge in the end…. !!!
