Separate burials of the heart and the remainder of the body were not an uncommon occurence in by-gone days. This practice was sometimes resorted to when a person died far from their home - their body would be buried near the place of their death while the heart would be returned to the place of their domicile for internment.

The ashes of the author Thomas Hardy are at Westminster Abbey but his heart is at Stinsford.

In 1290, when he learnt that Queen Margaret of Scotland ('The Maid of Norway ') had died, Edward (Longshanks ) I hastily raised an army and marched northwards towards Scotland leaving his devoted wife, Eleanor of Castile to follow at a more leisurely rate. Eleanor took ill with a fever at Harby in Nottinghamshire (about eight miles from Lincoln) and died on the November 24th, 1290, before Edward could arrive. Her body was carried to St Catherine�s Priory in Lincoln where she was embalmed, her viscera being sent to Lincoln Cathedral for burial. Her body was buried in Westminster Abbey but her heart, which travelled with the body, was buried in Blackfriars Church.

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