The grave was then forgotten until it was rediscovered when excavation commenced in for a passage to a new royal vault. Several relics of King Charles I were removed for identification. George made a watercolor drawing of the vault and its contents. The trestle supporting it could have collapsed. It could have collapsed due to pressure from within. This memorial was placed here by command of King William IV. The story starts with the sermon by a Franciscan friar named William Petow.
He preached at the chapel at Greenwich on Easter Sunday, March 31, He made this very clear in the sermon as the king sat before him in the chapel.
Instead of pontificating on the resurrection of Christ, he preached on the verse from the Bible, 1 Kings 22 regarding King Ahab. King Ahab dies from wounds he suffered in a battle. They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria where the prostitutes bathed , and the dogs licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared. Jezebel had replaced the prophets of God with pagans as Petow said Anne was endorsing and encouraging men of the New Religion.
Petow said Henry would end up like Ahab with dogs licking his blood. Amazingly, Henry only imprisoned Petow for a short time and he escaped England and ended up on the Continent. This story was taken up and repeated by Gilbert Burnet Burnet himself admitted he was in a hurry when he wrote this book and did not research it sufficiently and that the volume was full of mistakes. A plumber was called to fix the coffin and he witnessed a dog licking the blood. All of this is a unique exercise in historical fiction so we have to take the story as apocryphal.
The night before the funeral he was transferred […]. Like Like. Hi Susan. Did you have a specific topic in mind for book recommendations? Just to be rid of his wives, he had 13 people executed for treason, and one died charged with […]. Anything is possible but it is highly unlikely Buckingham Palace and other powers that be would allow it to be done. Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville are buried here. The unfortunate Charles I is in the same vault.
The only problem with this comment is that Henry was, probably the most evil English monarch. In fact, I am curious troubled too that so many people here are upset at his final resting place.
For what is he being rewarded and respected? We just visited Windsor today which is why I found your site! You judge him by modern standards which is absurd. He was by no means ruthless and the whole nonsense with womanizing. Its said you visited such an amazing place and came out with that conclusion. AStrong: Call it judging by modern standards if you will.
I AM sensitive to the diverse mindsets of different time periods. I believe he abused his power to a greater degree than most other rulers, even of his own era. Like Liked by 1 person. I agree completely. It always struck me as odd that those who admire Henry VIII for whatever reasons have do difficulty glossing over the fact that he had by some estimates, 80, people executed during his reign. In the east window of St Margaret's church Westminster, dated about , there are kneeling figures of Henry and Katherine her head has been replaced by a modern one in the window but the original can be seen in the new Galleries at the Abbey.
The ceremony is illustrated in the mortuary roll of Abbot Islip dated in the Abbey's archives. The day before the king and queen had processed from the Tower of London through the City to Whitehall. On the morning of the coronation they made their way to the Palace of Westminster and walked from there to the Abbey in procession. The ceremony was performed by William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The queen sat on a lower chair than the king.
Afterwards there was a magnificent banquet in Westminster Hall 'greater than any Caesar had known'. More days of feasting and jousting followed. Henry would later amend the Oath that he took at his coronation to reflect his views about the relationship of crown and church.
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Charles I was buried here because it was a handy large grave with enough room. The Parliament would not let the funeral in or the service to go ahead. The vault was identified the night before and guarded. A bit of a tussle followed but the funeral were eventually let in. With the Puritan men objecting, the Royal party made loud lamenting and sang songs to drown them out. The service was short and Charles was placed in the vault but slipped and hit the lid of the coffin of Henry Viii.
It was removed and laid inside again, making certain it cleared the other bodies. He was put in the middle of Henry and Queen Jane Seymour. It really does sound as if the coffins are in a bad state. These places are just over crowded.
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