tomb henry iv queen westminster abbey coffin burial sculpture stone Unusually for a King of England, he was buried not at Westmi
Unusually for a King of England, he was buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel as near to the shrine of Thomas Becket as possible. Becket's cult was then at its height, as evidenced in the Canterbury Tales, and Henry was particularly devoted to it (he was anointed at his coronation with oil supposedly given to Becket by the Virgin Mary, which had then passed to Henry's father). Henry was given an alabaster effigy, alabaster being a valuable English export in the 15th century. His body was well embalmed, as a Victorian exhumation some centuries later established
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