Where are the medieval Kings of England buried?

In this video we will look at the burial sites of each mediaeval King of England and what happened to each site.
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The Anglo-Saxon chronicles.
Asser's Life of Alfred the Great.
Britain's royal families, Alison Weir
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Kings, Queens, bones and Bastards, David Hilliam.
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I never knew that about Royal Britain, Christopher Winn.
A great and terrible king, Marc Morris.
The battle of Hastings, Jim Bradbury.
Richard III and the princes in the tower, A.J. Pollard.
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King John, Marc Morris.
Edward IV, Jeffrey James
Henry III, Stephen Church.
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References Reference 1, Page 47/48 of Asser's life of King Alfred. Reference 2, Page 46 of Asser's life of King Alfred. Reference 3 Page 111 of the Anglo Saxons chronicles, Michael Swanton Reference 4 archaeology.co.uk/articles/news/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-winchester-cathedral-mortuary-chests.htm Reference 5 Page 18 Kings, Queens, Bones and bastards, David Hilliam. Reference 6 Page 113 Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 7 Page 20 King, Queen, Bones and Bastards, David Hilliam. Reference 8 Page 71 King and Queen, professor David Loades. Reference 9 Page 144 Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 10 Page 19 ENCOMIUM EMMAE REGINAE Reference 11 Page 351 The Anglo-Saxons, Marc Morris. Reference 12 Page 27 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 13 Page 148 of the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 14 Page 152, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 15 Page 256, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett. Reference 16 Page 259, King Cnut W.B.Bartlett. Reference 17 Page 161, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 18 Page 162, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 19 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex. Reference 20 Page 162 Edward the confessor, Peter Rex. Reference 21 Page 199, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 22 Page 27 of Kings, Queens Bones and Bastards. Page 37 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. The Norman conquest, appendix 1, Teresa Cole. Page 101 King and Queens, Professor David Loades. Page 35 King and Queens of England, Nigel Cawthorne Page 261, The Norman conquest, Thresa Cole. Reference 23 Page 219, the Anglo-Saxon chronicles, Michael Swanton. Reference 24 Page 32 Kings, Queens bones and bastards, David Hilliam. Page 194 Kings and Queen, Professor David Loades. Reference 25 Page 268 Anglo-Saxons chronicles. Reference 26 Page 111 The annals of Roger de Hoveden. Reference 27 The Revolutionary Exhumations at St-Denis, 1793 Reference 28 The embalmed heart of Richard the Lionheart (1199 A.D.): a biological and anthropological analysis Reference 29 Page 104 Chronicles of the age of chivalry. Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Reference 30 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris Reference 31 Page 364, Edward 1st a great and terrible king, Marc Morris, Westminster abbey website www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/edward-i-and-eleanor-of-castile Reference 32 Page 73, I never knew that about Royal Britain, Christopher Winn. Reference 33 Page 304 Chronicles of the age of chivalry. Elizabeth Hallam and Hugh Trevor-Roper. Reference 34 Page 117, Britain's royal family, Alison Weir. Reference 35 Page 128, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 36 Page 132, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 37 Page 264 Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James. Reference 38 Page 264, Edward IV Glorious son of York, Jeffrey James. Reference 39 Page 151, Britain's royal families, Alison Weir. Reference 40 Page 155 Britain's royal families, Alison Weir.

[@chloecollins9866]

“I won’t poke at the subject today” I see what you did there lol

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

I think Middle Age England ended when the Tudor ascend the throne. From that moment onward it’s Renaissance.

[@Embracehistoria]

When I attended school in the late 2000s, we're taught the middle ages in England ended with the rise of the Tudor dynasty, I disagree with that theory and prefer the theory that the middle ages in England ends with Henry 8th, to quote my other video on the matter. "So to summarise the middle ages in England ends with King Henry because of the monumental changes to England he implemented, the physical landscape changing and the fact that England was no longer a member of the catholic church."

[@Embracehistoria]

A few things, the footage of the sites was a year long project and filmed on a Samsung S21 and a Google Pixel Pro 8. so if you like to support the channel you can on Patreon or KZbin channel membership. www.patreon.com/embracehistoria Because this was a long video the editing was a lot simpler, with mainly stock footage filmed by me.

[@Embracehistoria]

Thank you all for the support on this video.

[@mfranssens]

This was really interesting thanks

[@Embracehistoria]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@eazy8579]

Great video as always man!

[@skiker4560]

Enjoyed very much

[@strategicplays2977]

amazing video

[@Embracehistoria]

Glad you think so.

[@Fred-rj3er]

Brilliant. Thank you.

[@Embracehistoria]

Glad you liked it.

[@104thDIVTimberwolf]

Well done, taking a subject that could (should) have been intolerably dry and making it worth listening to.

[@Embracehistoria]

Well, throw in some dry humour and a shakespeare quote and it's more interesting to write about.

[@MariaClara-sy9gb]

I'm watching your Anarchy series. Was Matilda known to be a beauty? What do the sources tell us?

[@Embracehistoria]

Sadly, I've never come across any description of her.

[@jamiemohan2049]

Contemporaries describe her as 'very beautiful', but there is no detailed description of her appearance. It is also important to not take the accounts as seriously as they may have just said that based on her status and propaganda.

[@Andy_Babb]

I love this but my jam is really the Dark Age kings!

[@Embracehistoria]

Same, I really enjoyed filming at Glastonbury Abbey, sadly there's just not much on the early Kings of England.

[@Andy_Babb]

@@Embracehistoria So true. My goal in life is to take a vacation to Britain and see the ancient sites and my ancestors castles. I’ll certainly still be tuning in for your future content, really great work my friend. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

[@11274reece]

Not far in so idk if you'll cover them but what happened to alfred the great's family resting places is aggrivating.

[@Shane-Flanagan]

French Revolution destroyed so much French history 😒

[@baseballworldwide9439]

By design

[@Shane-Flanagan]

@@baseballworldwide9439 By a movement

[@nancytestani1470]

Yes, France had a great monarchy, it went for a long time. Yes, I understand both sides for the French Revolution and the Monarchy but the French Revolution becomes another bloodbath and called the “Terror”

[@si4632]

The English wigs played a role ​@@Shane-Flanagan

[@wales1945]

Bran the blessed was buried under the tower of London

[@Embracehistoria]

Yeah, but what about when Brian Blessed dies?

[@jamellfoster6029]

*Many say King John was the worst English monarch.

[@Embracehistoria]

Yep, he was pretty bad, but I have argued that Henry 8th was the worst.

[@si4632]

Easily ​@@Embracehistoria

[@jujubees5855]

​@@Embracehistoria🎯🎯🎯

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Things just went from bad to worse, for Edward II. His wife, and her boyfriend forced him from power. Oof!

[@Embracehistoria]

Literally, my wife's boyfriend lol.

[@neilbuckley1613]

However, Edward's son, Edward III had boyfriend, [ Roger Mortimer ] hanged after he seized power in a coup, mummy was given genteel house arrest.

[@tomcat4765]

Harold was hit in the eye by an arrow and was then ran through by Guillaume le Batard. Gytha Thirkelsdottir offered Guillaume the weight in gold of Harold's body, but Guillaume refused and ordered his men to throw Harolds body off the nearby cliff into the English Channel, so Harold never had a burial site. If they are looking for a DNA match for the pelvis of Alfred The Great, they could ask me for comparison, as he was my direct 34x Great Grandfather. Lord Sherlock

[@constantius4654]

As outlined in this blog, King Harold's shattered remains were reputedly interred by his friends at Waltham Abbey in Essex. There is a marked grave there. England would have been a much happier country if 'our King Harold' had won or otherwise survived the Battle of Hastings. Nor would countless French folk have suffered centuries of slaughter and strife caused by endless assaults on France that were triggered by French speaking Angevin and Plantagenet kings the aftermath of the Norman Conquest.

[@si4632]

Might of had more wars with the Danes who knows lol

[@si4632]

The normans certainly put a stop to them 🤣

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

I'm his 45th great grand daughter via Edberga, daughter of Ethelred the Unready, who married the real Uhtred the Bold, who lived nearly 100 years after King Alfred. Don't believe Bernard Cornwell, who wrote The Last Kingdom, he was just embellishing the story. Anyway, Uhtred and Edberga's daughter married into the Scottish royalty, and then into the Lord of Tynedale's family and a few generations later, Mariotta of Tynedale married William of Featherstone, in what was then the West Riding of Yorkshire. Now it's South Yorkshire. William was descended from a Norman, Ralph Grammaticus, who took the name Featherstone when he married the Saxon heiress, Edelina, who claimed to be descended from the Bernician Kings of Northumbria. It was not until the 19th century that my great grandmother Martha Featherstone married my great grandfather John Henry Dowson. So there I am.

[@englejas]

The fact that all of this English history was lost just because fat Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife is deplorable. Definitely England's most scummy king.

[@Embracehistoria]

You sir are based. 👍

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Why does no-one know how to spell biased. BIASED.

[@SomasAcademy]

"Mediaeval" - that spelling variation has entirely too many vowels in a row

[@Embracehistoria]

Tis the British way!

[@ludovica8221]

Was it necessary to use the extremely offensive word "w***er" ? I was going to show this video to my mother, as my family are from Winchester, and history obsessed, but cannot do so now. I am not sure how old you are, and I am aware expletives are used so often nowadays that younger people seem to be blunted to the degree of offence those words carry to others unused to their use, This would have been a great video but for that. I urge you to please keep your language clean and professional if you wish to be taken seriously and for your channel to keep growing

[@eazy8579]

Shut up ya wanker

[@MessiKingofKings]

Unpopular opinion: Henry II has to be one the most horrible Kings of England, when you look at the broader spectrum. The guy was a bad husband, was incompetent enought that his sons went on a civil war with him, was responsible for one of the worst Church scandals (Thomas Beckett's murder). And even the Angevin Empire is still sad because Louis VII didn't deserve this as he was one of the most loyal kings of Christendom, and had gone on a Crusade personally, and almost died in Anatolia. And Henry II himself never had the balls of going to a Crusade, even so with so much time and resources on his hand, and even with the real threat of Saladin. He could have avoided Hattin, but he was too worried about sleeping around, with a prostitute even. If he had at least been smart enough to see women would have liked seeing him saving Christendom. Empress Matilda went on a civil war for nothing, really. While I was watching this video, my mother while walking around said you had a sexy voice lol, and my sisters agreed. We're from Évora Portugal, you'd have been quite lucky if you had been of the Englishmen during the Crusades in Portugal.

[@Embracehistoria]

He was a very power hungry man, and the job of running that empire eventually killed him, as he was just worn out, his legs were a mess and he had painful sores. I think he was a good mediaeval king for the time period. And thank you haha.

[@si4632]

It got shafted🤣 by those luciferians aka protestants 🤣

[@jardon8636]

king knud, canute, the great.. in all other lands, except in england as *the great*... the most underated *english king of all time*, and his wife queen emma of normandy...virtually forgotten about, as wife and regent...also mother to edward the conffesor... as for king alfred the great, probably the most overated, king of some of the english.. asser the bishop, plays his part in the *wessex conquers the universe ,propaganda*,...., alfred was no arthur..

[@neilbuckley1613]

True, he actually existed.😄

[@Embracehistoria]

Well, Queen Emma does make an appearance in this video.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Canute did some good things as King, which why his courtiers flattered him by saying that even the sea obeyed him and he had to prove otherwise to them, by commanding the waves to stop, which of course, they didn't. But Alfred stopped the Great Heathen Army of the Vikings from completely taking over the whole of England. So that when Canute took over he had to abide by English rules. Alfred also preserved the English language, otherwise we might have been speaking some form of Danish. No, Canute is not the Great in England, because he was a foreign usurper. Alfred was the Great champion of England and the English. He started the push towards one country, even if he didn't live to see it, and his grandson Athelstan was the first King of England.

[@jardon8636]

@@AnneDowson-vp8lg lol knud or canute, was not some foreign clueless usurper, his father was previously :king sweyn forkbeard, his grandad the king of northumbria, by a right of descent and conquest..., his political marriage to the queen dowager : emma of normandy, who then became queen consort for the 2nd time..., its a big shame, that most history books totally ignore her, they just concentrate on her son edward the conffessor.. who was half norman , and the very lowly *house of tostig... , originally very minor barons*, who were supported and elevated by king canute the great, of the north sea empire, * canute was already king of 3 countries, ENGLAND was a mere one of the domains, also in terms of medieval europe,, was very minor realm ,compared to france.. the overated king alfred is a mere stopping point in the island of britain's history, especially his legacy, were the so called heathens , were actually *viking christians, both sweyn and canute were not heathens, but christian rulers, who for the most part, continued the anglo saxon church etc... his brief end too viking expansion, but after his death went 2000x 24/7 to at least unite england, so canute could be first ever king of england, ironic as he was not english lol... as for athelstan, his longer rule and being alfred the great grandson...also considered *overlord of most of britain, even parts of wales and scotland, at least for a brief time... however the anglo saxon chronicles to hype up his reputation and downplay his rivals and contempary rulers and the lack of centralisation even in england, his legacy going out of the window , on his own death* queen consort Edith tostig was wife to king edward the conffesor... therefore her brother earl harold tostig., was the brother to a queen and brother in law to a king, but not related to edward the conffessor... some historians, therefore claim, that king harold II tostig, had a coup or a *lowly usurper, as relative of edward the conffessor , or a candidate who was not harold II , like edward the exile~ by right of relation of blood and kin, was the best candidate... william the bastard* conqueror was cousin to edward the conffessor as a relation to queen emma of normandy..*