Royal Burials

[Blog Real]

Royal Burials in the Chapel in Windsor Castle by location:
https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/a.../royal-burials/royal-burials-chapel-location/

 

[An Ard Ri]

Charles I's coffin was hastily dumped into the same vault as Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and was later sealed up but rediscovered by accident in the early 19th century during restoration work.

 

[angieuk]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-old-Princes-Tower-murder-mystery-SOLVED.html

Did not know there were 2 other children found at Windsor Castle in 1700's?
Wonder what King Charles will do?

 

[Denville]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-old-Princes-Tower-murder-mystery-SOLVED.html

Did not know there were 2 other children found at Windsor Castle in 1700's?
Wonder what King Charles will do?

probablly have DNA tests.

 

[An Ard Ri]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-old-Princes-Tower-murder-mystery-SOLVED.html

Did not know there were 2 other children found at Windsor Castle in 1700's?
Wonder what King Charles will do?

There are also 2 skeletons of two young boys buried in at the Henry VII Chapel Westminster Abbey.Neither of them have ever been identified.

 

[TLLK]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-old-Princes-Tower-murder-mystery-SOLVED.html

Did not know there were 2 other children found at Windsor Castle in 1700's?
Wonder what King Charles will do?

I believe that KCIII will be open to having DNA tests done on the remains especially since there is related DNA on file. At the very least the tests would determine if there is a familial relation or not.



If the results do show that these are the remains of Edward V and the Duke of York, it's possible that they might have a funeral. I wonder then if they would be laid to rest near their parents' graves at St. George's Chapel Windsor or would they remain at Westminster Abbey near their eldest sister?

 

[Alison H]

The ID of Richard III was established using mitochondrial maternal line DNA, as were those of the Romanovs. So presumably they’d need a maternal line descendant from one of Elizabeth Woodville’s daughters, if there are any. Or maybe they can do something with the DNA used to ID Richard. It wouldn’t prove what happened to the boys, on whose orders, but it’d clear up part of the mystery. Although I do understand that people have qualms about digging up skeletons.

 

[An Ard Ri]

Its not like either of these remains were recently discovered,both sets were found over 300 years ago but there does not seem to be an urgency in discovering who they are definitively!
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[Hallo girl]

The ID of Richard III was established using mitochondrial maternal line DNA, as were those of the Romanovs. So presumably they’d need a maternal line descendant from one of Elizabeth Woodville’s daughters, if there are any. Or maybe they can do something with the DNA used to ID Richard. It wouldn’t prove what happened to the boys, on whose orders, but it’d clear up part of the mystery. Although I do understand that people have qualms about digging up skeletons.

It would be interesting to find out if the 2 skeletons are in fact related. There is the myth that one of the boys was switched with a local boy.

 

[LauraS3514]

IF the "bones in the urn" are re-examined, the first thing they need to do is date them. If the reports of where they were found are correct, they can NOT be those of Edward IV's sons. They were discovered ten feet under the foundations of a stone staircase that was built nearly two hundred years before the boys were born, on the edge of what is now known as a Roman-era cemetery under the Tower grounds. (And they spent several weeks in a garbage heap before being gathered up again!) I'm 98% certain those bones are of two Roman children. After all, an excavation large enough under that staircase would have been remembered as it would have taken several men days to dig down and then under the staircase to deposit the bodies. Several hundred people LIVED in the Tower at the time. Someone would have gladly tried to curry favor with the new King by telling him where his wife's brothers were buried!

There have been many sets of bones found in The Tower grounds over the centuries. Remember, there has been human occupation there for millennia, and the above-mentioned Roman cemetery lies under the site. There was even another young man who disappeared there, one of Margaret Pole's grandsons who was imprisoned by the Tudors, never to be seen again.

 

[victor1319]

Its not like either of these remains were recently discovered,both sets were found over 300 years ago but there does not seem to be an urgency in discovering who they are definitively!
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Bunte online, the German tabloid, reports and cites Germany's biggest daily, Bild.
https://www.bunte.de/royals/britisc...ges-raetsel-um-prinzen-steht-vor-loesung.html

So, they claim, the bones were found centuries ago dumped together with animal bones. And the reason, why they were not forensically examined until now with DNA testing and all this, is, that the deceased Queen Elizabeth II. was against it!

While Charles might allow or has already given his allowance, to compare the results of a DNA testing with a testing of the bones of King Richard III., who's remains were found recently below a parking lot...

My, where the mighty end up...

 

[An Ard Ri]

There are some may missing royal burials ,many were presumed lost during Dissolution of the Monasteries,Reformation,Great Fire and the Blitz.

In London alone
Minoresses of St. Clare Convent without Aldgate
Blanche of Artois
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk - rediscovered during excavations in 1964 and now buried at Westminster Abbey.

Old St Paul's Cathedral
Sæbbi King of Essex (d.695)
Edward the Exile (d.1057)
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (d.1399)
Blanche of Lancaster (d.1368)

Christ Church Greyfriars
Isabella of France (Queen of England)
Marguerite of France (Queen of England)
Joan of The Tower (Queen of Scotland)
Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (noblewoman)
Isabella de Coucy (princess)
Beatrice of England (princess)

 

[An Ard Ri]

William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury also known as William Long Sword who died in March 1226.
He was an illegitimate son of Henry II of England
The 3rd Earl is buried at March 1226 at Salisbury Cathedral and his tomb has survived.
His tomb was opened in 1791 for examination.

The tomb of the Lady Elizabeth de Montfort, Baroness Montagu at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. +1354

Tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick.