From the late 13th century onwards funeral effigies of monarchs and other royal persons were carried in a funeral procession on the coffin beneath a canopy. The effigy was generally close to the ...

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died ...

His funeral took place in the Abbey on Sunday 5th July and he was buried near his wife's monument in the chapel of St Edward the Confessor. A shield was given as an offering and could be the one still ...

After almost everyone had taken a shot at Judas, the effigy was cut down and placed on a funeral pyre built of logs, which was set on fire and the effigy cremated. Judas had been stuffed with fire ...