When Margaret Holland, a medieval English noblewoman, was preparing for her death in 1439, she had her first and second husbands’ bodies exhumed.
It didn’t matter to her that both husbands had been buried, at their own request, next to the tomb of Henry IV and the shrine of the saint of martyr Thomas Becket, one of the holiest places in Christendom.
Margaret commissioned a lavish tomb with her effigy in the centre and her deceased husbands on either side—a post-mortem ménage à trois designed to emphasise her importance.
Margaret’s monument, with its startlingly bright heraldry…
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