To a certain extent such burials were indeed often utilitarian. I think
the classic example is Henry I of England, who died in Normandy and was
eviscerated and (badly) embalmed there before his frame was taken to
England for burial in Reading Abbey. Richard I of England is another
case: he died and was embalmed at Chaluz, where his entrails were buried,
but his body went to Fontevraut and his heart to Rouen. Likewise Eleanor
of Castile, whose viscera were buried in Lincoln cathedral after she was
embalmed following her death at Harby near Lincoln; her body was buried
in Westminster Abbey and her heart in the London Dominican church.
Richard's heart burial at Rouen does seem, however, to have had some
emotional overtones. Likewise Eleanor of Castile's heart burial at the
London Dominicans, and that of her mother-in-law at the London Franciscans
(the orders of which these two queens were respectively patrons).
John Parsons
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, J FRANCE wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:50:32 +0100
> > Subject: Re: Empire
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> > Date sent: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:18:38 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
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> Is this not a utilitarian measure? When Fulk of Anjou died he was at
> Metz where his entrails were left, the rest of his body being taken
> to Loches after being preserved in spices!
> Glaber 4.26 p.214 in my edition and see GCA p.117 (Marchegay &
> Salmon)
> There are other examples
> >
> John France
> > Did the Western emperors ever practice separate burials of hearts & other
> > entrails, as the French kings did; see the works of E. A. R. Brown? If
> > so, that might be another area in which competition with the emperors
> > might have occued.
> >
> > tom izbicki
> >
> > 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
> >
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