Saturday 14 September 2013

Final Resting Places

Unlike many other family dynasties the Tudors and their courtiers are not all buried in the same cathedral. Instead their graves are scattered all over Britain so if you are ever in England and want to pay your respect to someone in particular then here is where they are buried.

Henry VII
Westminster Abbey, London

Elizabeth of York
Westminster Abbey, London

Margaret Beaufort
Westminster Abbey, London

Arthur, Prince of Wales
Worcester Cathedral, Worcester

Mary Tudor
St. Mary Churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds

Margaret Tudor
Perth Abbey, Perth

Henry VIII
St. Georges Chapel, Windsor

Catherine of Aragon
Peterborough Cathedral, Peterborough

Anne Boleyn
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Jane Seymour
St. Georges Chapel, Windsor

Anne of Cleves
Westminster Abbey, London

Katherine Howard
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Catherine Parr
St. Mary's Chapel, Sudeley Castle

Edward VI
Westminster Abbey, London

Mary I
Westminster Abbey, London

Elizabeth I
Westminster Abbey, London

Courtiers

Thomas Wolsey
Leicester Abbey, Leicester

Thomas More
All Saints Churchyard, Chelsea

Thomas Cromwell
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
St. Michael the Archangel, Framlingham

Lady Jane Grey
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Mary, Queen of Scots
Westminster Abbey, London

Thomas Boleyn
St. Peter Churchyard, Hever

George Boleyn
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Mary Boleyn
Believed to be St. Peter Churchyard

Edward Seymour
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Thomas Seymour
Chapel of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula, Tower of London

Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Austin Friars Churchyard, London

Thomas Culpepper
St. Sepulchre without Newgate Churchyard, London

Robert Dudley
St. Mary Churchyard, Warwick

Dr. John Dee
St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Mortlake


more will be added...

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