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Titles of Sir Thomas of Lancaster: (Royal Ancestry)
(Royal Ancestry) He was slain at the Battle of Beauge in Anjou 22 March 1420/1, and was buried in St. Thomas's Chapel in the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, Kent. After the death of his wife Margaret, the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury received a royal mandate to exhume the bodies of her former husbands and reinter them beside her in St. Michael's Chapel.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Clarence's funeral account survive in part. The duke's body arrived at Sandwich in Kent on 9 August, and the coffin-carriage proceeded to Canterbury drawn by horses from the Clarence's stable at Holderness and escorted by twenty-four torchbearers. Clarence was finally interred on 25 September, six months after his death. Clarence's will of 1417 gave instructions for burial at the feet of his father, which was in the bay to the east of Henry VI's tomb. The duke's will left funds for chantry masses at Canterbury for himself, his parents and Margaret Holland. There is no record that Clarence or Somerset had a tomb. This is probably because prior to her death, Margaret of Holland had already decided on a triple tomb for herself and her two husbands. Margaret herself was interred at Canterbury in St. Michael's Chapel on 8 January 1440. On 27 January Henry VI instructed the exhumation of the bodies of Somerset and Clarence and their reburial according to the duchess's prior instructions. The triple tomb stands in the center of the chapel and features alabaster effigies and Purbeck marble tomb-chest. Margaret Holland's effigy lies in the center of the tomb with John Beaufort to the left and that of Clarence in the senior position; all three effigies are shown with hands clasped in prayer. Margaret's effigy has a ducal coronet and the effigies of her husbands are depicted wearing armor.
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