. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. Knights Templars took charge of the funeral, whichseems to have been magnificently done. The corpse of thedead monarch, clad in the royal robes, with a crown uponits head, was carried in state to the Abbey, where theprincipal nobles swore fealty to the new King, Edward I.,who did not return from Palestine for another year. Inhis last will and testament, dated over twenty years earlier,Henry had ordered his interment in the church of theblessed Edward at Westminster, and bequeathed, besidesmoney to the building fund, a cross which the Countess ofKent gave h
. The roll-call of Westminster Abbey. Knights Templars took charge of the funeral, whichseems to have been magnificently done. The corpse of thedead monarch, clad in the royal robes, with a crown uponits head, was carried in state to the Abbey, where theprincipal nobles swore fealty to the new King, Edward I.,who did not return from Palestine for another year. Inhis last will and testament, dated over twenty years earlier,Henry had ordered his interment in the church of theblessed Edward at Westminster, and bequeathed, besidesmoney to the building fund, a cross which the Countess ofKent gave him, to the small altar { St. Edwards table).One of his last gifts to the Abbey had been a goldenvase, in commemoration of an act of sacrilege which hadstirred the soul of every devout Catholic. The vase, whichwas placed on a short column close to the shrine, containedthe heart of Henry dAlmayne, son of the Kings brotherRichard, a young man of most attractive character, muchbeloved by his royal relatives. This Prince was murdered. THE FAMILY OF HENRY III 27 during high mass, and at the moment of the elevation ofthe Host, in Viterbo Cathedral, by his cousins, the sonsof Simon de Montfort, who pretended that the innocentyouth had taken part in the assassination of their clung to the altar, crying vainly for mercy, till hisright hand was severed, and he was cruelly hacked to , as Guy de Montfort rushed from the Cathedralshouting, I have had my revenge, a knight stopped himwith the taunt, How so, sir ? your fathers body wasdragged about. Whereupon the brutal young noble re-turned, and, seizing the mutilated corpse by the hair, draggedit outside and round about the cathedral square. Guyatoned for this crime in life by a long imprisonment andwretched end, and vengeance pursued him after death, forDante places him up to his neck in the river of boilingblood. The heart was long treasured by the monks as aprecious relic, and was much venerated by the pilgrims,
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