Heart-burial

In medieval Europe heart-burial was fairly common. Some of the more notable cases of this include:

Richard I , whose heart, preserved in a casket, was placed in the Cathedral in Rouen , Normandy ;

Henry I , whose body was buried in Reading Abbey , but his heart, along with his bowels, brains, eyes & tongue, is interred at the Cathedral in Rouen , Normandy ;

Eleanor Of Castile , Queen of Edward I , whose body is interred in Westminister Abbey , but heart and other viscera are in the Lincoln Cathedral ;

Robert The Bruce , whose body lies in Dunfermline Abbey , but heart is at Melrose Abbey in Roxburghshire . He wished his heart to rest at Jerusalem in the church of the Holy Sepulchre , and on his deathbed entrusted the fulfilment of his wish to James Douglas (the Black) . The latter broke his journey to join the Spaniards in their war with the Moorish Kings of Granada , and was killed in battle. He had kept the heart of Bruce enclosed in a silver casket hanging round his neck. The heart was subsequently recovered and buried in the Abbey.

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