# Burial places of British royalty

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These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.

## Monarchs of England (to 1603)
### Pre-conquest

| Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
| Egbert | 839 | Old Minster, Winchester Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Æthelwulf | 855 | Steyning Church, then the Old Minster, Winchester Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Æthelbald | 860 | Sherborne Abbey, Dorset | |
| Æthelbert | 866 | Sherborne Abbey, Dorset | |
| Æthelred I | 871 | Wimborne Minster, Dorset | |
| Alfred the Great | 899 | Originally Old Minster, Winchester Moved to New Minster then Hyde Abbey His remains were lost after the ruin of the abbey following the Reformation | |
| Edward the Elder | 924 | New Minster, Winchester Moved to Hyde Abbey His remains were lost after the ruin of the abbey following the Reformation | |
| Æthelstan | 939 | Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire His remains were lost after the ruin of the abbey following the Reformation. The tomb and effigy survived. | |
| Edmund I | 946 | Glastonbury Abbey | |
| Eadred | 955 | Old Minster, Winchester Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Eadwig (Edwy) | 959 | Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Edgar | 975 | Glastonbury Abbey | |
| Edward the Martyr | 978 | Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset Bones reputed to be his now reside in the Church of St. Edward the Martyr, Brookwood. | |
| Æthelred the Unready | 1016 | Old St Paul's Cathedral Tomb lost in the Great Fire of London, referenced as such on a plaque outside the crypt of the present church. | |
| Edmund Ironside | 1016 | Glastonbury Abbey | |
| Sweyn Forkbeard | 1014 | Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark | |
| Cnut the Great | 1035 | Old Minster, Winchester Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Harold Harefoot | 1040 | St Clement Danes, London | |
| Harthacnut | 1042 | Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral | |
| Edward the Confessor | 1066 | Westminster Abbey. Edward was the first king buried in the church. In the 13th century, Henry III had his remains transferred to a shrine in the rebuilt abbey, in the new chapel named after him. | . |
| Harold Godwinson | 1066 | Waltham Abbey, Essex (by repute) | |

### Post-conquest

| Name | Death | Place of burial |
| William I | 1087 | Abbaye-aux-Hommes, Caen, Normandy His remains were destroyed in 1562 & 1793. The tomb survived. |
| William II | 1100 | Winchester Cathedral |
| Henry I | 1135 | Reading Abbey, Berkshire His remains were lost after the ruin of the abbey following the Reformation. |
| Stephen | 1154 | Faversham Abbey, Kent The abbey was demolished after the Reformation in 1538 and Stephen's grave and remains were destroyed, reportedly thrown into the nearby Faversham Creek when the abbey was demolished. |
| Matilda | 1167 | Rouen Cathedral, Normandy, France Remains transferred from Bec Abbey in Normandy following the French Revolution. |
| Henry II | 1189 | Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France The graves no longer exists and their remains were probably destroyed during the French Revolution. Their tombs and effigies survived. |
| Richard I | 1199 | Fontevraud Abbey, Anjou, France The graves no longer exists and their remains were probably destroyed during the French Revolution. Their tombs and effigies survived. |
| John | 1216 | Worcester Cathedral |
| Henry III | 1272 | Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Edward I | 1307 | Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Edward II | 1327 | Gloucester Cathedral |
| Edward III | 1377 | Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Richard II | 1400 | King's Langley Priory (reburied Edward the Confessor's Chapel, Westminster Abbey 1413) |
| Henry IV | 1413 | Canterbury Cathedral |
| Henry V | 1422 | Westminster Abbey |
| Henry VI | 1471 | Windsor Castle (reburied in St George's Chapel 1484) |
| Edward IV | 1483 | St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle |
| Edward V | 1483? | Traditionally believed to have been murdered and buried secretly in the Tower of London. Bones presumed to be his and those of his brother Richard, Duke of York were unearthed in the Tower in 1674 and re-buried in Westminster Abbey four years later. |
| Richard III | 1485 | Leicester Cathedral Originally buried across the street in Greyfriars, but the original tomb was lost when the friary was demolished in 1538. The remains of Richard III were recovered by an archaeological dig in 2012 and re-interred in 2015. |
| Henry VII | 1509 | Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Henry VIII | 1547 | St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle |
| Edward VI | 1553 | Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Jane | 1554 | St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London |
| Mary I | 1558 | Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Elizabeth I | 1603 | Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey |

## Monarchs of Scotland (to 1603)

| Name | Death | Place of burial |
| Kenneth MacAlpin | 858 | Iona Abbey |
| Donald I | 862 | Iona Abbey |
| Constantine I | 877 | Iona Abbey |
| Áed | 878 | Iona Abbey |
| Eochaid | Unknown | Unknown |
| Giric | 889 | Iona Abbey |
| Donald II | 900 | Iona Abbey |
| Constantine II | 952 | Culdee monastery at St Andrews (probable) |
| Malcolm I | 954 | Iona Abbey |
| Indulf | 962 | Iona Abbey |
| Dub | 967 | Iona Abbey |
| Cuilén | 972 | Iona Abbey |
| Kenneth II | 995 | Iona Abbey |
| Constantine III | 997 | Iona Abbey |
| Kenneth III | 1005 | Iona Abbey |
| Malcolm II | 1034 | Iona Abbey |
| Duncan I | 1040 | Iona Abbey |
| Macbeth | 1057 | Iona Abbey |
| Lulach | 1058 | Iona Abbey |
| Malcolm Canmore | 1093 | Tynemouth, then moved to Dunfermline Abbey |
| Donald III | after 1097 | Iona Abbey |
| Duncan II | 1094 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| Edgar | 1107 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| Alexander I | 1124 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| David I | 1153 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| Malcolm IV | 1165 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| William I | 1214 | Arbroath Abbey |
| Alexander II | 1249 | Melrose Abbey |
| Alexander III | 1286 | Dunfermline Abbey |
| Margaret, Maid of Norway | 1290 | Christ's Kirk, Bergen |
| John Balliol | 1313 | France? |
| Robert the Bruce | 1329 | Body interred at Dunfermline Abbey His heart was removed, taken on Crusade, then buried at Melrose Abbey |
| David II | 1371 | Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh |
| Robert II | 1390 | Scone Abbey |
| Robert III | 1406 | Paisley Abbey |
| James I | 1437 | Perth Charterhouse, Perth |
| James II | 1460 | Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh |
| James III | 1488 | Cambuskenneth Abbey |
| James IV | 1513 | Probably displayed at Monastery of Sheen, London Afterwards unknown |
| James V | 1542 | Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh |
| Mary I | 1587 | Peterborough Cathedral (1588–1612) then Westminster Abbey |

## Native princes of Wales (to 1283)

| Name | Death | Place of burial |
| Owain Gwynedd | 1170 | Bangor Cathedral |
| Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (prince of north Wales only) | 1203 | England? |
| The Lord Rhys (prince of south Wales only) | 1197 | St. David's Cathedral |
| Llywelyn ab Iorwerth | 1240 | Body interred at Aberconwy Abbey Later (apparently) removed to Maenan Abbey; sarcophagus now found at parish church of Llanrwst |
| Dafydd ap Llywelyn | 1246 | Body interred at Aberconwy Abbey; current whereabouts unknown |
| Llywelyn ap Gruffudd | 1282 | Cwmhir Abbey |
| Dafydd ap Gruffudd | 1283 | Hanged, drawn and quartered at Shrewsbury |

## Monarchs since 1603

(of England, and Scotland (1603–1707); of Great Britain (1707–1801); of United Kingdom (1801–present))
| Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
| James VI and I | 1625 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
| Charles I | 1649 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |

### Interregnum

As Lords Protector the Cromwells served as heads of state and exercised monarchical power
| Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
| Oliver Cromwell (Protector) | 1658 | Tyburn, London. Moved from Westminster Abbey in 1660 and dumped in a pit after posthumous execution. Reputed head buried at Sidney Sussex College in 1960. | |
| Richard Cromwell (Protector) | 1712 | All Saints Church, Hursley, Hampshire | |

### Restored monarchy

| Name | Death | Place of burial |
| Charles II | 1685 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| James II and VII | 1701 | Chapel of St Edmund, Church of the English Benedictines, Rue St. Jacques, Paris (lost at the French Revolution) |
| Mary II | 1694 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| William III and II | 1702 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| Anne | 1714 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| George I | 1727 | Chapel of Leine Castle in Hanover, Germany; moved from the crypt to the Welfenmausoleum [de] at Herrenhausen on 5 December 1957. He was the last British monarch buried outside of the British Isles. |
| George II | 1760 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey |
| George III | 1820 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| George IV | 1830 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| William IV | 1837 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| Victoria | 1901 | Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore, Windsor |
| Edward VII | 1910 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| George V | 1936 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| Edward VIII | 1972 | Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore, Windsor |
| George VI | 1952 | King George VI Memorial Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
| Elizabeth II | 2022 | King George VI Memorial Chapel, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |

## Jacobite pretenders

| Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
| James Stuart ("Old Pretender") Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") Henry Benedict Stuart | 1766 1788 1807 | St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican (see also Monument to the Royal Stuarts) | |

## Other Royal burials (by place)

| Cemetery location | Name of royals buried there |
| York Minster | William of Hatfield (1337) |
| Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, Frogmore | Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent (1861) |
| Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore | Prince Albert (1861) Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII (1972) |
| St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle | Elizabeth Woodville (1492) Jane Seymour (1537) Princess Amelia (1810) Princess Augusta, Dowager Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1813) Princess Charlotte (1817) Queen Charlotte (1818) Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1820) Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1827) Princess Augusta (1840) Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1849) Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1884) Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (1892) Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1897) Prince Francis, Duke of Teck (1900) Alexandra of Denmark (1925) Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (re-interred 1930) Princess Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge (re-interred 1930) Mary of Teck (1953) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (ashes 2002) Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (2002) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (2021) |
| Royal burial ground, Frogmore | Princess Helena Prince Arthur of Connaught Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll Prince William of Gloucester (1972) Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester Prince George, Duke of Kent Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent (1968) Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (1986) Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone The Earl of Athlone Viscount Trematon Lady May Abel Smith Sir Henry Abel Smith Sir Angus Ogilvy |
| St Ninian's Chapel, Braemar | Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife (1912) Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (1959, ashes) The Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife (1931) Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1943) |
| Althorp | Diana, Princess of Wales (1997) |
| Westminster Abbey | Edith of Wessex (1079) Matilda of Scotland (1118) Eleanor of Castile Philippa of Hainault Anne of Bohemia Catherine of Valois Anne Neville (1485) Elizabeth of York Anne of Cleves (1557) Anne of Denmark (1619) Elizabeth of Bohemia (1662) Prince George of Denmark (1708) Caroline of Ansbach (1737) |
| Peterborough Cathedral | Catherine of Aragon (1536) |
| St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London | Anne Boleyn (1536) Catherine Howard (1542) Lady Jane Grey (1554) Guildford Dudley (1554) |
| Sudeley Castle | Catherine Parr (1548) |
| St Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight | Princess Beatrice (1944) and Prince Henry of Battenberg (1896) |
| St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, Norfolk | Prince John (1919) |
| Vadstena Abbey, Sweden | Queen Philippa of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1430) |
| The Royal Cemetery, Solna, Sweden | Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden (1922) |
| Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension, Ypres, Belgium. | Prince Maurice of Battenberg (1914) |
| Brunswick Cathedral, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. | Caroline of Brunswick (1821) |
| Convent of the Visitations, Chaillot, near Paris | Mary of Modena (1718) |
| Monastery of São Vicente de Fora (Pantheon of the House of Braganza), Lisbon, Portugal | Catherine of Braganza (1705/6) |
| Basilica of St Denis, Paris, France | Francis II of France (husband of Mary Queen of Scots) (1560) Henrietta Maria of France (1669) |
| El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain | Philip II of Spain (widower of Mary I of England) (1598) |
| Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1567) |
| Church of St John, Mirow, Germany | Princess Augusta of Cambridge (1916) |

## Sources

* Lists portal
* Burial Places of the Kings & Queens of Britain britannia.com (Accessed 20 June 2007 – NB contains errors)

## References and notes

* ↑ "A search for bones of Henry I is planned in Reading". BBC News. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
* ↑ Westminster Abbey Website (accessed 30 April 2015)
* ↑ Westminster Abbey Website (accessed 30 April 2015)
* ↑ An account arose that when the tomb was destroyed, Richard's bones were thrown into the River Soar. This was disproven following the recovery and identification of Richard's remains in 2012.
* ↑ Burns, John F. (26 March 2015). "Richard III Gets a Kingly Burial, on Second Try". The New York Times.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 Abbey Tour - The Lady Chapel Westminster Abbey website (accessed 20 June 2007)
* 1 2 Eochaid & Giric Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ Ross, David R (2003). Passion for Scotland. Dundurn. p. 37. ISBN 1842820192.
* ↑ Malcolm III Canmore Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ William I Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ Alexander II Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ John Balliol Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ Robert II Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ James III Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ James IVUndiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007)
* ↑ See main article on James: Miller, 240; Waller, 401; MacLeod, 349. MacLeod and Waller say all of James's remains were lost in the French Revolution. The English Illustrated Magazine's article on St. Germain from September 1903 says parts of his bowel interred at the parish church of St. Germain-en-Laye were rediscovered in 1824 and reburied. Hilliam, 205. Hilliam disputes that his remains were either scattered or lost, stating that when revolutionaries broke into the church, they were amazed at the body's preservation and it was put on public exhibition where miracles were said to have happened. Hilliam states that the body was then kept "above ground" until George IV heard about it and ordered the body buried in the parish church of St Germain-en-Laye in 1824.
* ↑ Helmut Knocke and Hugo Thielen (2007). Mausoleum, in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (Eds.) Hannover Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon. Handbuch und Stadtführer. Springe: zu Klampen Verlag. ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 (p.92)
* ↑ Weir, Alison (1996). Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, Revised edition. Random House. pp. 272–276. ISBN 0-7126-7448-9.
* ↑ Westminster Abbey Website (Accessed 1 December 2014)