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Feb 19, 2024 · When Catherine of Valois died in 1437, she received an equally respectful and solemn funeral with a painted wooden funeral effigy robed in magnificent fabrics and fur. Her coffin was placed in the Lady Chapel of Westminster, and not next to that of her first husband, because of her remarriage.
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He married Catherine de Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France, at Troyes on 2nd June 1420. Their son became Henry VI.
This took place in the Abbey on 9th April 1413. Snow fell on the day of the ceremony and this was taken by some to mean there were hard times ahead. A jewel now in the Imperial State Crown may have been one he wore in his helmet at Agincourt in 1415. Two carvings depicting his coronation appear on his Chantry Chapel. Catherine had a separate corona...
On 31st August 1422 Henry died at Vincennes in France and his body was embalmed and rested for a time in Rouen Cathedral. He was returned to England and a great procession accompanied the cortege from Dover to St Paul's Cathedral in London. The coffin, on which lay his funeral effigy (which does not survive), was then brought to the Abbey on 7th No...
The saddle, helm and shield, which were part of his funeral 'achievements', were for many centuries kept in the chantry or displayed on the wooden beam above, but were restored and removed for better preservation to the Abbey Museum in 1972. They are now on display in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at the Abbey. This saddle is the earliest s...
Henry's widow Catherine de Valois (1401-1437) married Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, and one of her three sons, Edmund, Earl of Richmond was the father of the future Henry VII. Her funeral took place on 10th February 1437. Solemn vespers for the dead were sung on the eve of the funeral. Many nobles, with the king and queen, attended the funeral when f...
Queens Consort of Westminster Abbey A service to commemorate the anniversary of the battle of Agincourtwas held in the Abbey on 29th October 2015 A conference was held at Westminster School on 28th October 2015 discussing aspects of his funeral and the armour. These detailed papers have been published in The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westm...
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Catherine de Valois was the French princess who married Henry V in 1420. At her funeral in the Abbey in 1437, her painted wooden effigy was carried on her coffin, lavishly dressed in robes and a crown.
The wood effigy of Catherine of Valois, carried at her funeral, Westminster Abbey. In 1428, Henry V's younger brother, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester, concerned that a step-father of the infant king could wield too much influence, secured the passing of an act to prevent Catherine from marrying without the consent of the king and council.
Catherine de Valois. The effigy of Henry V’s queen is a full length effigy with a painted red dress and groove on her head for a crown. Elizabeth of York. Only the pear wood head and arm of Elizabeth now survives. Henry VII. The plaster head of Elizabeth of York's husband is a death mask.
Jun 2, 2020 · The wooden effigy carried at her funeral and showing the queen as she was known to her contemporaries is also on display at the abbey. Relatively little is known about the first Queen Catherine of ...
Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England [1] and was the mother of King Henry VI. [a] Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and ...
