> Yes they did. Henry II (if I remember well) died in Utrecht and his
> heart was buried there. His corpse was shipped to Spiers, where the
> Salien emperors had their tombes. The same holds tru for other
> emperors.
>
> Anneke Mulder-Bakker
>
Henry II.: the heart is at Utrecht as well as the one of is
successor, Konrad II. (whose body was later brought to Speyer, when
the Salien burial church had been built; Henryīs body is buried at his
founding Bamberg. But Henry III. died in Northern Germany, his heart
being buried at Goslar and his corpse being brought to Speyer/Spiers(?).
And Frederick Barbarossa, who died on his way to the Holy Land: his
heart was buried at Antiochia or Tripolis (Iīm not quite sure), while
nobody knows until now where his body remained.
And to go back in time: as far as I can remember, the heart of Otto I.
has been buried at Memleben, where he died in 972. And Otto I. was the first non-frankish emperor. His father was the first
non-frankish king of the later Germany, and about Otto the
contemporaries are telling that he was wearing frankish cloth at the day
of his coronation as a king - so from the beginning the saxonian kings
and then emperors regarded themselves as inheritors of the frankish-roman
empire - no hiatus to be found ...
And regarding the point of utilitarian measures: itīs possible, but not
necessary: one of the carolingian kings in the 9th century - as far as I
remember - died in Italy and was brought to the north as a whole body -
salted. And would it have been reported so often, would the places of the
heartīs burial have been so much remembered as they normally have, if
there hadnīt been seen a meaning in it? At least: the necessity has
obviously been covered by something of difference.
F.S.
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