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   Jasmine

   May 23, 2015 at 9:55 am

   It will be great if the investigations do reveal the footprint of the Abbey. It would be really astonishing if a second king could be found in a car park. How many other English monarchs are missing?

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      super blue

      May 23, 2015 at 10:27 am

      Harold II somewhere. There is a piece of Alfred’s pelvis at Winchester, although it may be Edward the Elder, his son. Stephen is being searched for at Faversham in Kent, where his wife and son were also buried. He would also share Henry I’s mtDNA. We have other recent posts on this subject with these tags and one from October, UIAVMM.

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         Jasmine

         May 23, 2015 at 10:33 am

         Thanks, Super, I’ll take a look. I saw the documentary about the pelvis, but hadn’t heard about the search for Stephen.

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      Laura State Spoelstra

      May 23, 2015 at 5:54 pm

      Several monarchs were lost in France during that nation’s various upheavals: William I, Matilda/Maud (daughter and only surviving child of Henry I) Henry II, Richard I, Eleanor of Aquitaine, James II. Several English Queens are also missing, due to the Reformation.

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         super blue

         May 23, 2015 at 9:13 pm

         Quite right, wrt France, but that sounds like a hell of a mess to clear up -literally.

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