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Aug 1, 2024 · 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 effigy is on permanent display our museum, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries - one of twenty royal funeral effigies in our collection.
Catherine de Valois wooden funeral effigy on the left and the stone head thought to represent her on the right. Westminster Abbey is the home to a collection of unique and wonderful medieval wooden funeral effigies. These are to go on show once again in June 2018 with the opening the Abbey’s new Jubilee Galleries.
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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...
This is the earliest effigy now in existence. He was buried in the Abbey in 1377 and the face is a death mask. Anne of Bohemia. The face of Richard II's queen is also carved from a death mask. 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
Oct 23, 2023 · But this is a shame, as they deserve to be remembered just like their spouses. Let’s get into our Consort of the Month: Catherine de Valois and her story. Consort of the Month: Catherine de Valois Fast Facts. Birth Date: 27 October 1401. Death Date: 3 January 1437. Tenure (Queen): 2 June 1420 – 31 August 1422. Birth Name: Catherine
Feb 19, 2024 · Henry’s funeral effigy subsequently disappeared, though a new one was made in 1971. 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.
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Books. The Funeral Effigies of Westminster Abbey. Anthony Harvey, Richard Mortimer. Boydell Press, 2003 - Architecture - 206 pages. The funeral effigies housed in their own quarters in the Norman undercroft are one of the most remarkable yet little-known treasures of Westminster abbey. They derive from a time when an effigy of the dead monarch ...
