94 Lionel's Death and Burial 



Edward IV and Richard III, and therefore before 1460.^' The 



lines in question are (Weever, p. 735) : 



Fuit Elisabeth sibi nata 

 Altera, que egregio post . . . Leonello, 

 Ed. ter. innato, post fataque sic tumulato, 

 Ut vides, exigua pro tanto principe tumba, 

 Inque chori medio. 



And in English (p. 738) : 



Q. Had she ony Issue? A. Yea sir sikerly. 



Q. What? A. a doughtur. Q. what name had she? 



A. Liche hir modir Elisabeth sothely. 



Q. Who evir the husbonde of hir might be? 



A. King Edwards Son the third was he, 



Sir Lionel, which buried is hir by, 



As for such a Prince too sympilly. 



This makes it clear that Lionel was buried, as his will provided, 

 in the middle of the choir ; and that he rested by his wife, 

 Elizabeth de Burgh, in a tomb which must have formed a strik- 

 ing contrast to that of his brother, the Black Prince, at Canter- 

 bury, for which the latter made such lavish provision in his will. 

 It is equally clear that Lionel's body was not brought to England 

 the 3^ear of his death, for we have a document,^^ written in 

 December, 1368, on the part of Edward III, in which Edward 

 Despenser and John of Bromwych are instructed that they are 

 on no account to transport the body of Lionel to England, 

 because of the grief it would occasion his relatives, but to give 

 it solemn interment in Italy: 



Item, ils dirront as dits sire Le Despenser et monseigneur Johan 

 coment le roi voet et leur prie qu'ils ordenent en toutes manieres que 

 le corps mon dit seigneur de Clarence soit solempnement enterres 

 par dela, sicome affiert a tieu seigneur, tant pur I'onour du roi come 

 de lui, sans faire carier par decea le corps ou nulle partie d'ycel, pur 

 le doel et tristesse que le roi son piere, madame la roine se miere, 

 messeigneurs ses freres et mes autres seigneurs et dames de son 

 lignage ent prendroient. 



As the Council of Trent (1545-1563) ordered the removal 

 from S. Pietro of all the tombs but those of saints^^ (not except- 

 ing that of the Lombard king, Liutprand), Lionel's, if any trace 



"Cf. Weever, p. 739; Diet. Nat. Biog. 48. 176, 184. 



'^ Brit. Mus. Cott. Claud. D. Ill, quoted by Kervyn 18. 490. 



"Magenta, p. 163. 



