Lionel's Death and Burial 91 



As to the disposition of Lionel's body authorities differ. 

 According to Froissart,^ it was embalmed, and sent home to 

 England by Galeazzo.* The Annals of Ireland^ (as above) 

 declare that he was first buried in the church of S. Pietro Ciel 

 d'Oro in Pavia,® and afterwards*^ in the Augustinian monastery 

 of Clare,^ in Suffolk. On the other hand, Capgrave^ relates 

 that Lionel, when dying, ordered his attendants to convey his 

 heart and bones to Clare, and to bury the rest of his body 

 (carnibtis suis cum viscerihusY^ in front of the tomb of St. 

 Augustine, where Henry, Earl of Derby, saw his resting-place 



^Kervyn 7. 251-2. 



* So also Annal. Med. (R. I. S. 16. 740) ; cf. Kervyn 7. 251 : 'Touttesfois 

 messires Galeas envoya le corps embausme de monseigneur Lion, due de 

 Clarense, par un evesque, arriere en Angleterre; la fu-il enseveli.' The 

 Chron. Plac. makes the astonishing statement that his body was in that 

 year carried to Apulia {R. I. S. 16. 510). 



' 'Primo sepultus in civitate Papie juxta Sanctum Augustinum Doctorem 

 [see Hist. Background, p. 195], deinde sepelitur apud Clare, in conventu 

 Augustinensium in Anglia.' 



^ Petrus Azarius, as quoted by Benvenuto : 'Et ipso mortuo in Papia 

 [sic] portato, Papise traditus fuit sepulturae'; Cron. Saluz.: 'fu portato 

 a Pavia.' 



^So Beltz, Mem. of the Order of the Garter, p. 131; Sandford, p. 223 

 (copied by Rapin, Hist, of England, 1743, i. 439; cf. Nichols, Wills, 

 1780, p. 91). Sandford seems indebted to Barnes, p. 720: *Tho for the 

 present he was deposited in the Chief Church of Pavia, a City of Milain, 

 yet soon after, according to his Testament, his Body was brought over 

 into England by Thomas Newborne Esquire [whom Barnes makes one 

 of his legatees], and others of his Domesticks, and interred in the said 

 Church of the Augustine-Fryars, at Clare aforesaid, near unto the Body 

 of his First Wife, Elizabeth de Burgh.' 



^ Probably founded in 1248, and the first settlement of the Augustinians 

 in England; suppressed in 1538 {Vict. Hist, of Suffolk 2. 127-8). In 

 1821 the church was at the northeast side of the friary, and used as a barn 

 (R. C. Taylor, Index Monasticus, quoted in Dugdale, Monasticon, 1849, 

 6.' 1600). 



"De Illustribus Henricis, quoted in Derby Accounts, p. cxi; so Kervyn 

 21. 2, 3. 



^° Professor Tout, speaking of Edmund Mortimer, third Earl of March, 

 remarks (Diet. Nat. Biog. 39. 121) : 'According to the directions in his 

 will, March's body was interred on the left hand of the high altar of 

 Wigmore Abbey (Nichols, p. 104). An Irish chronicle speaks of his 

 being buried in the church of the Holy Trinity at Cork, but this probably 

 only refers to the more perishable part of his body.' 



