Roskilde Cathedral, Burial Site of Danish Monarchs

[Stefan]

Yes, wonder if QMII initially preferred to be laid to rest with her parents outside the cathedral?
Only to be persuaded to have a sarcophagus later on.

It also makes me wonder whether PH changing his mind was in spite? That is a somewhat childish act, perhaps reinforced by his dementia.
At least 15 years ago his leaning towards Buddhism didn't seem important enough at the time for him to insist on being cremated and not buried in a church.

Indeed strange. Last year when it was announced that Prince Henrik would not be buried alongside the Queen it was told that is wish of him he had for a long time. It seems not soo long if 15 years ago he was still involved into the planning of this Monument.
What also find a bit strange that it has alredy been placed inside the Chapel but will now be covered for a hopefully long time. Why did they place it then already. Could still be done after HM is gone.

 

[Moonmaiden23]

I saw at Roskilde Queen Margarethe the First stone sarcophage , I hate Queen Margarethe II 's

I don't like it either. It looks like a cartoon version of a space ship.

 

[Spheno]

Why did they place it then already. Could still be done after HM is gone.

Do you suggest to hold it on the queen's backyard?

Forgive me but I find that sarcophagus to be one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Entirely out of place with its environment and just plain tacky looking. I know Margrethe is an artist but this is an enormously expensive failure of a concept IMO.

A very strange spectacle indeed.

This " failure" will attract visitors and generate money for the Cathedral many, many years.

 

[Stefan]

This " failure" will attract visitors and generate money for the Cathedral many, many years.

Would you go if you can't actually see it as it is covered now until the time it is needed. Would be no reason for me to go if i hadn't planned it anyway.

 

[Muhler]

I agree with Spheno.
This sarcophagus will attract visitors, whether we like it or not (I happen to like it), certainly for no other reason than that it is so unusual - and has a good saucy story.

I also think it would be in poor taste to exhibit the sarcophagus until after QMII has been laid to rest. After all the main purpose of grave monuments is not to be an attraction, even though we know they very much are attractions.
When we talk about sarcophaguses (or whatever the plural word is) a mere 5-10-15-20 years is nothing. The sarcophagus will be there (hopefully) for centuries, it can wait for its audience.

In the BB article I summarized it said that it was a complicated task to assemble the sarcophagus, so complicated it was decided not to dismantle it.
In say 15 years, those who build the thing may not be available with the consequent risk of damaging the sarcophagus when someone else has to assemble it.

 

[maria-olivia]

In her mind is she a greater Monarch than her King Predecessors Christians and Frederics ?

 

[Muhler]

In her mind is she a greater Monarch than her King Predecessors Christians and Frederics ?

Well, I can't look into QMII's head, however I think it's pretty safe to say that she don't.
She took the name Queen Margrethe the Second, out of respect of the 1400's regent, Queen Margrethe. Who technically was never a monarch, but is nevertheless popularly known as Queen Margrethe the First.

 

[An Ard Ri]

A lot of medieval Monarchs and consorts are buried at St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted though the tombs are not as impressive as those at Roskilde Cathedral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bendt's_Church,_Ringsted

 

[Muhler]

The gossip mag Se & Hør, which at the best of times is unreliable, has come up with an explanation for why PH refused to be buried next to his wife at Roskilde Cathedral.
And as even a broken clock is right twice a day...

The theory is that the artist who designed the sarcophagus, Bjørn Nørgaard, was very critical and satirical against the DRF in the late 60's, bordering on being insulting and certainly tasteless. - And as such PH and Bjørn Nørgaard didn't see eye to eye and that, my friends, is the real reason why PH refused to be interred under this sarcophagus.
Bjørn Nørgaard has commented on his "art" back in the 60's saying times were different and provoking and being against the established system was the norm back then.

- Okay, I don't believe that story for one single second.
PH was initially very much involved in the design of the sarcophagus.
Also, PH had his flaws, but bearing a grudge for decades was surely not among them!
Finally, would PH - who QMII very much listened to - select an artist he couldn't stand the sight of to design his tomb? That seems unlikely to me.

 

[Tatiana Maria]

https://www.bt.dk/royale/manden-bag...fsloerer-saadan-spillede-prins-henrik-en-stor

An interesting article from BT.

The man who created the sarcophagus, Bjørn Nørgaard, has told a bit about hos it came about.
Both QMII and Bjørn Nørgaard hails from the Protestant culture where large grave monuments are uncommon.
So it was very PH who in the first years of the creative and design stage came with suggestions and inputs. PH wanted this to be a statement to the future, that they (he and QMII) were here. A don't forget us, so to speak.
It was only late in the design process that he changed his mind, but by then it was too late to change the design.

This is how it looks today and until QMII needs it. Screened off: https://bt.bmcdn.dk/media/cache/res...ronningens-gravplads-er-tt-p-at-vre-frdig.jpg

Yes, wonder if QMII initially preferred to be laid to rest with her parents outside the cathedral?
Only to be persuaded to have a sarcophagus later on.

It also makes me wonder whether PH changing his mind was in spite? That is a somewhat childish act, perhaps reinforced by his dementia.
At least 15 years ago his leaning towards Buddhism didn't seem important enough at the time for him to insist on being cremated and not buried in a church.

The gossip mag Se & Hør, which at the best of times is unreliable, has come up with an explanation for why PH refused to be buried next to his wife at Roskilde Cathedral.
And as even a broken clock is right twice a day...

The theory is that the artist who designed the sarcophagus, Bjørn Nørgaard, was very critical and satirical against the DRF in the late 60's, bordering on being insulting and certainly tasteless. - And as such PH and Bjørn Nørgaard didn't see eye to eye and that, my friends, is the real reason why PH refused to be interred under this sarcophagus.
Bjørn Nørgaard has commented on his "art" back in the 60's saying times were different and provoking and being against the established system was the norm back then.

- Okay, I don't believe that story for one single second.
PH was initially very much involved in the design of the sarcophagus.
Also, PH had his flaws, but bearing a grudge for decades was surely not among them!
Finally, would PH - who QMII very much listened to - select an artist he couldn't stand the sight of to design his tomb? That seems unlikely to me.

I agree that Se & Hør's explanation is difficult to believe. It's possible that Prince Henrik's family is aware of the true explanation, but in light of the seemingly unclear meaning of his changed decision I wonder if the decision to complete construction of the sarcophagus and eventually lay the Queen to rest under it might have been perceived by his family as an opportunity to honor his original wishes (while his own burial would honor his final decision), just in case.

 

[Blog Real]

List of burials
Below is a list of the kings and queens of Denmark and their spouses who are buried in the cathedral:

Choir:
Margrethe I (d. 1412): immediately behind the high altar
https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gbc184cd9/22154741_i4fRC.jpeg

Piers flanking the apse:
Harald Bluetooth (d. 985–986): supposedly buried in the northwestern pier, but no remains have been found.

Sweyn II Estridsen (d. 1076) in the southeastern pier.
https://fotos.web.sapo.io/i/o33175152/22154768_MMa27.gif

Apse:
Christopher III of Bavaria (d. 1448)
https://c1.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G9d183a14/22154749_QgpWi.jpeg

Christian V (d. 1699) and Queen Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (d. 1714)
https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G04179b29/22154754_ISZoa.jpeg

https://c1.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gdf1897c5/22154756_nh4eS.jpeg

Frederick IV (d. 1730) and Queen Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1721)
https://c4.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G0a188957/22154758_QP0If.jpeg

https://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G5518c904/22154760_ba3vL.jpeg

Chapel of the Magi (Christian I's Chapel):
Christian I (d. 1481) and Queen Dorothy of Brandenburg (d. 1495)
https://fotos.web.sapo.io/i/oe0177e7f/22154762_f2Dbz.gif

Christian III (d. 1559) and Queen Dorothy of Saxony-Lauenburg (d. 1571)
https://c6.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gda177626/22154765_Jyl2r.jpeg

Frederick II (d. 1588) and Queen Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1631)
https://c8.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G2417ec28/22154767_paHyS.jpeg

Frederick V's chapel:
Christian VI (d. 1746) and Queen Sophia Magdalena of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (d. 1770)
https://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G79174811/22154770_HWET8.jpeg

https://c8.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G5517fd30/22154771_lF5gA.jpeg

Frederick V (d. 1766) and Queens: Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751) and Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1796)
https://c6.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G0a17bf8d/22154774_1urV7.jpeg

https://c4.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G5d170126/22154778_hWmZZ.jpeg

https://c9.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G5e18308d/22154781_e3bpI.jpeg

Christian VII (d. 1808)
https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G451703b6/22154787_4Pzis.jpeg

Frederick VI (d. 1839) and Queen Marie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (d. 1852)
https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gb1176ceb/22154790_SHNhl.jpeg

https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G5618092d/22154791_KZ9k2.jpeg

Christian VIII (d. 1848) and Queen Caroline Amalie of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1881)
https://c6.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gb417f5fa/22154792_Nt7FY.jpeg

https://c3.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gc117b4cf/22154794_JI67b.jpeg

Frederick VII (d. 1863)
https://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gbc18e678/22154795_Hg0d7.jpeg

Christian IV's chapel:
Christian IV (d. 1648) and Queen Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (d. 1612)
https://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G8c173336/22154797_uqC14.jpeg

https://c6.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G4b189f8d/22154799_uCLOE.jpeg

Frederick III (d. 1670) and Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)
https://c8.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G0b188cfc/22154800_qwuFr.jpeg

Christian IX's chapel:
Christian IX (1906) and Queen Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1898)
https://c4.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G6a189e81/22154801_L0MfE.jpeg

Frederick VIII (1912) and Queen Louise of Sweden-Norway (1926)
https://c6.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G9b17f18e/22154802_wvagS.jpeg

Christian X (1947) and Queen Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1952)
https://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/Gc217ded9/22154803_tiGjo.jpeg

Frederick IX's burial site:
Frederick IX (d. 1972) and Queen Ingrid of Sweden (d. 2000)
https://c10.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/G2817fa0b/22154804_kjTsa.jpeg

 

[Blog Real]

Video about Roskilde Cathedral:

 

[Blog Real]

At the Billed Bladet royal mailbox, they asked how many kings are buried in Roskilde Cathedral.

The official figure is that 21 kings are buried in the cathedral. But it is not known for sure.

https://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/hvor-mange-konger-er-begravet-i-roskilde-domkirke