What was weird with Charles I burial?

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King Charles I of England.

Answer 1

Hey Santiking,

"On April 22; Friday, seven weeks after the Count's first burial, his tomb in the gallery was broken open, and his body was reverently removed. The brothers of the church believed that the body was already rotting and that no one would be able to stand the mortal stench since it had been committed to the tomb from the day of burial in the gallery, on Friday April 4 till April 22. Therefore they had arranged in advance that during the removal of the body from the tomb they would burn thyme and frankincense in a fire lighted close by the place where the body lay, so that if any stench arose from the tomb, it would be overcome by the strength of those salubrious odors. But when they removed the stone and smelt nothing bad, they placed the body wrapped in the deerskin on a bier in the middle of the nave. Then king Louis VII of France, Charles' liege-lord, together with a great crowd of citizens and all the people, waited in the church until the bishop, together with three abbots, should come in procession from the church of Saint Christopher with all the clergy bearing the relics of Saints Donatian, Basil, and Maximus, to meet the corpse and the king on the castle bridge, and they bore the blessed body back to the same church of Saint Christopher with tears and sighs. And there the bishop with the whole choir of priests celebrated the prayers for the dead and the Mass of all the faithful dead for the salvation of the good count’s soul...." 1

His body did not rot!

Answer 2

He was buried at Windsor in the same vault as Henry VIII. Henry had arranged to be buried with his third wife, Jane Seymour, who had died before him, but he had a space left for his sixth wife Catherine Parr to join them. In the event, Catherine remarried, so the space remained for Charles l.