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The remains of King Richard III as discovered in situ at the site of Grey Friars Priory, Leicester Funeral cortège bearing Richard's modern coffin. The remains of Richard III, the last English king killed in battle and last king of the House of York, were discovered within the site of the former Grey Friars Priory in Leicester, England, in September 2012.
Harold I of England was originally buried in the abbey, but his body was exhumed, beheaded, and thrown into a fen, in June 1040. The body was later rescued and re-buried in the church of St. Clement Danes , Westminster .
In 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries on orders from King Henry VIII. [9] [10] He had the bones of Thomas Becket (1119–1170) destroyed, his shrine destroyed, and ordered all mention of his name obliterated. [10] [11] By order of Mary I, the body of Martin Bucer (1491–1551) was exhumed and burned at the Market Square in ...
A drawing of Oliver Cromwell's head on a spike from the late 18th century. Oliver Cromwell, born on 25 April 1599, led the Parliamentarian army in the English Civil War.Upon his army's victory, he oversaw the conversion of England into a republic, abolishing the monarchy and the House of Lords after the execution of King Charles I in January 1649.
These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.
King Henry, upon being brought Percy's body after the battle, is said to have wept. The body was taken by Thomas Neville, 5th Baron Furnivall , to Whitchurch, Shropshire , for burial. However, when rumours circulated that Percy was still alive, the king "had the corpse exhumed and displayed it, propped upright between two millstones, in the ...
The family made the decision public after images of Lawrence's grave taken after the funeral home exhumed his body began circulating on social media. Lawrence was 18 when he was killed in 1993 ...
The king's body was moved from the bedchamber to the privy chamber at the end of April. [36] Two days before the funeral, the effigy was moved into the Great Hall at Denmark House, a room with a bay window, which was now decorated and draped in black like a funerary chapel. Charles I attended while the body was placed in the presence chamber. [37]