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Anne of Bohemia's wooden funeral effigy head is still in the Abbey collection. The tomb was opened in 1871 and most of Anne's skeleton was missing as bones had been extracted by visitors over the years through a hole in the side of the tomb base where enamelled shields had once been attached.
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
Anne of Bohemia (11 May 1366 – 7 June 1394), also known as Anne of Luxembourg, was Queen of England as the first wife of King Richard II. A member of the House of Luxembourg, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth of Pomerania. [1] Her death at the age of 28 was believed to have been ...
- 3 August 1394, Westminster Abbey, London
- Luxembourg
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Jun 14, 2016 · Anne of Bohemia and her husband King Richard II of England. Anne was born on May 11, 1366 in Prague. She was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia and his fourth wife, Elizabeth of Pomerania. Much of Anne’s childhood was spent in the Hradschin Palace in the newly transformed and prosperous city of Prague.
Like the Westminster portrait, the effigy ordered in 1395 for Richard's double tomb with Anne of Bohemia, represents Richard as a mature and bearded adult.The coppersmiths' contract stipulated that they were to work from a pattern, and that Richard's effigy was to 'imitate the figure (corps)' of the king.
11 May 1366 - 7 June 1394. Anne of Bohemia was born 11 May 1366 in Prague, she was the eldest daughter of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and his fourth wife Elizabeth of Pomerania, the daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania, and Elisabeth of Poland. The marriage of Anne, who was the sister of King Wenceslas of Bohemia, to Richard II was ...
When Richard II's first consort, Anne of Bohemia, died in June 1394, his grief knew no bounds. He decided that unlike any previous king and queen of England, they should both be buried in the same tomb, and that on it their gilded effigies should lie (in the words of the contract with the coppersmiths) "crowned, side by side and clasping their right hands and holding sceptres in their left hands".
