Where is anne of cleves buried

The original wax effigy carried on her funeral hearse was remade in and it can be seen in the Abbey Museum. She died the 24th of March, Anno [this is Old Style dating, now called ], of her reign the 45th year, of her age the 70th. Mother of her country, a nursing-mother to religion and all liberal sciences, skilled in many languages, adorned with excellent endowments both of body and mind, and excellent for princely virtues beyond her sex.

James, king of Great Britain, France and Ireland, hath devoutly and justly erected this monument to her whose virtues and kingdoms he inherits. Jane was proclaimed Queen after the death of Edward VI but never crowned. Her reign lasted only nine days. I have a question, I am also in relation to King Henry would you happen to have any relation to The Duke of Wellington?

I am a descendant down through family and his great-great-great granddaughter. Annette, are you a Ramsey through marriage or birth? While studying my family tree I saw another tree that was, mostly and unfortunately, private but had my grandfather in it.

The woman who had made the study linked us with Mary, Queen of Scots. My maiden name was Hamilton. I always wondered why Elizabeth I and Mary I were buried together. They were obviously not on the best of terms when both were alive, even though they were half-sisters.

Mary even had Elizabeth sent to the Tower of London! I read that Mary wanted to be buried next to her beloved mother, Catherine of Aragon.

Did Elizabeth express her wishes concerning her burial location? I suppose Elizabeth may have been grateful that Mary did not have her put to death…lack of a reason never stopped their father, Henry VIII, from putting troublesome people away. I also wondered about that to. I loved this era and all the history it brought with it. Hopefully one day I hope to visit these burial sites and to be amazed by the people that changed history in a unique way. Where are they buried? This question is really quite astute.

There does seem to be this overwhelming irony concerning the final resting place of these two queens. It does, however, have nothing to do with the final requests of these female monarchs.

James commissioned two monuments around the same time, one to his mother, Mary Queen of Scots and the other to Elizabeth I. Many historians have debated the motivation behind the decisions that James made regarding these monuments, but there seems to be the prevailing sentiment that James was promoting the legitimacy of his tenuous reign through the demonstrations of lineage. Sadly, the final requests of Mary and Elizabeth were largely ignored.

In fact, Mary I had requested that her mother, Katherine of Aragon, be moved down from Peterborough to join her in her vault. Katherine is still, to this day, up in Peterborough. James spent large amount of money on a tomb for his Mother to be place in the aisle opposite of the queen who had her beheaded. Your question touches upon ideas that historians have no real concrete answers to, as it is a tall order interpreting the mire that was the mind of James I.

I am sure Mary I would be happier in a Catholic Church or next to her mother. I am shocked that Henry v is in st Georges chapel ,Windsor with Jane Seymour and Charles 1 in the same vault under a plaque. For a king who changed history and became head of the church you would have thought he would have planned his funeral and resting place especially as his successor was Roman Catholic. I am sure Mary took great delight in sticking him under the floor!! I have no idea why Charles I is there.

Can anyone enlighten? Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle because Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector wanted his body to be a distance from London so that his grave would not become a site of pilgrimage for those still supporting the Royalist cause during the years of the Republic. Who was it down to? Elizabeth or James VI and I? The king gave her a handsome divorce settlement and she was on affectionate terms with the future Elizabeth I. She died at Chelsea on 17th July Mary I ordered her burial in the Abbey, and the magnificent funeral was conducted according to Catholic rites as Anne had wanted.

She lies on the south side of the High Altar and her monument is a low stone structure of three sections with carvings showing her initials AC with a crown, lions' heads and skulls and crossed bones symbols of mortality. It was probably made by Theodore Haveus of Cleves but was never finished. The back part of the tomb has been mostly obscured by later monuments. The inscription on the back, visible from the south transept, reads "Anne of Cleves Queen of England.

Born Even a family ticket can cost a fortune. Windsor may need a lot to keep clean but since the royal family actually live there most of the time these days, a contribution from them to reduce entrance fee would be nice.

Queen Mary of Scots was originally buried in Peterborough. They spot is marked by the plinth and a display. Limited funds should not mean limited fun, but sadly it does. This is a beautiful and wonderful dedication to Queen Anna of Kleves and really captured her grace and graciousness. She was highly thought of wherever she went and even Henry was forced to accept that in the end. It is most fitting that she was buried as Queen with full honours, on the orders and at the expense of her stepdaughter, Queen Mary I in Westminster Abbey.

Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. August 4, at pm. This sense of her royal status took a curious twist, when her tomb was built over to enable the watching Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and other members of the royal family to stand and observe the coronation of the present Queen Elizabeth II.

One imagines had she done so, whether her eventual resting place would have been at Dusseldorf, where she was born or perhaps in the chapel at Schloss Burg near Solingen, where she had spent some of her childhood at the Clevian court. But it was not to be. And one senses that in Westminster Abbey, Anne of Cleves has been according the fitting honour due to her, as a one-time Queen of England.

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