§ Mr. MarlowTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will list the burial places of each reigning monarch since and including Alfred the Great, where they are known. [17489]
§ Mr. Sproat[holding answer 31 March 1995]: The information requested is as follows:
- Alfred: Winchester Cathedral1
- Edward the Elder: Winchester Cathedral
- Athelstan: Malmesbury Abbey
- Edmund I: Glastonbury Abbey
- Eadred: Winchester Cathedral
- Eadwig: Winchester Cathedral
- Edgar: Glastonbury Abbey
- Edward the Martyr: Shaftesbury Abbey2
- Aethelred II: Old St. Paul's Cathedral3
- Sweyn: Roeskild Cathedral, Denmark
- Edmund Ironside: Glastonbury Abbey
- Cnut: Winchester Cathedral
- Harold Harefoot: probably St. Clement Danes4
- Harthacnut: Winchester Cathedral
- Edward the Confessor: Westminster Abbey
- Harold Godwinson: Waltham Abbey5
- William the Conqueror: St. Stephen's Abbey, Caen France6
- William II: Winchester Cathedral
- Henry I: Reading Abbey
- Stephen: Faversham Abbey
- Henry II: Fontevrault Abbey, France
- Richard I: Fontevrault Abbey, France
- John: Worcester Cathedral
- Henry III: Westminster Abbey
- Edward I: Westminster Abbey
- Edward II: Gloucester Cathedral
- Edward III: Westminster Abbey
- Richard II: Westminister Abbey
- Henry IV: Canterbury Cathedral
- Henry V: Westminster Abbey
- Henry VI: St. George's Chapel, Windsor7
- Edward IV: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- Edward V: Westminster Abbey8
- Richard III: Greyfriars Chapel, Leicester
- Henry VII: Westminster Abbey
- Henry VIII: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- Edward VI: Westminster Abbey
- Mary I: Westminster Abbey
- Elizabeth I: Westminster Abbey
- James I: Westminster Abbey
- Charles I: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- Charles II: Westminster Abbey
- James II: St. Germain en Laye, France
- William III and Mary II: Westminster Abbey
- Anne: Westminster Abbey
1002 - George I: Herrenhausen,Germany9
- George II: Westminster Abbey
- George III: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- George IV: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- William IV: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- Victoria: Windsor (Frogmore)
- Edward VII: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- George V: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
- Edward VIII: Windsor (Frogmore)
- George VI: St. George's Chapel, Windsor
1 Originally New Minster, Winchester; then Hyde Abbey, Winchester; now thought to be in mortuary chest in the Cathedral.
2 Originally Wareham Abbey.
3 Tomb lost in Great Fire 1666.
4 Originally probably at Old Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster.
5 Originally on the seashore at Hastings.
6 Tomb subsequently disturbed.
7 Originally buried at Chertsey Abbey.
8 Thought to have been buried originally at the Tower of London. Bones thought to be his were subsequently reburied at Westminster.
9 Originally buried in the Leineschlosskirche, Hanover, Germany.