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=
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!Name !Death !Place of burial !Image |
| Egbert
|839 |Old Minster, Winchester |
| Æthelwulf
|855 |Steyning Church, then the Old Minster, Winchester |
| Æthelbald
|860 | rowspan="2" |Sherborne Abbey, Dorset |
| Æthelbert
|866 | |
| Æthelred I
|871 | Wimborne Minster, Dorset |
| Alfred the Great
|899 |Originally Old Minster, Winchester |
| Edward the Elder
|924 |New Minster, Winchester | |
| Æthelstan
|939 |Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire |
| Edmund I
|946 |
| Eadred
|955 |Old Minster, Winchester |
| Eadwig (Edwy)
|959 |Bones now thought to be in one of the six mortuary caskets in Winchester Cathedral |
| Edgar
|975 |
| Edward the Martyr
|978 |Shaftesbury Abbey, Dorset |
| Æthelred the Unready
|1016 |Old St Paul's Cathedral |File:St Paul's old. From Francis Bond, Early Christian Architecture. Last book 1913..jpg |
| Edmund Ironside
|1016 |
| Sweyn Forkbeard
|1014 |
| Cnut the Great
|1035 |Old Minster, Winchester |
| 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=
Monarchs of Scotland (to 1603)
Native princes of Wales (to 1283)
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!Name !Death !Place of burial !Image |
| Owain Gwynedd
|1170 | |
| Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (prince of north Wales only)
|1203 |England? | |
| The Lord Rhys (prince of south Wales only)
|1197 | |
| Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
|1240 |Body interred at Aberconwy Abbey | |
| Dafydd ap Llywelyn
|1246 |Body interred at Aberconwy Abbey; | |
| Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
|1282 | |
| 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))
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!Name !Death !Place of burial !Image |
| James VI and I
|1625 |
| Charles I
|1649 |
=Interregnum=
As Lords Protector the Cromwells served as heads of state and exercised monarchical power
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!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=
Jacobite pretenders
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!Name !Death !Place of burial !Image |
| James Stuart ("Old Pretender")
Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") |1766 1788 1807 |St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican (see also Monument to the Royal Stuarts) |
Other Royal burials (by place)
Sources
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613011440/http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs_burials.html Burial Places of the Kings & Queens of Britain britannia.com] (Accessed 20 June 2007 – NB contains errors)
References and notes
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Category:Burials in the United Kingdom