Repository | Scottish Catholic Archives |
Ref No | SCA/MC/34/1/86 |
Title | Object from Mariae De Gueldres buiral |
Date | 1898 |
Level | File |
Description | Ex Arca Sepulcrali Marie De Guelders in Abbatia St ae Crucis Edinburgh; Objects recovered when the Royal Vault at Holyrood was open at the orders and expense of Her Majesty he Queen Elizabeth II; 5 bodies where moved at the time; Mary of Gueldres 1469, was teh foundress of Trinity College Church and Hospital; she was buried in the Church until 1848 when the building was removed to make way for the North Railway. The body was then laid in a damp sodden floor, that when moved again the coffin was decayed and the bottom fell away. The items where collected in 1898 |
Format | Objects |
AccessConditions | Open for consultation, some sections closed as they hold personal data subject to the Data Protection Act |