Elizabeth Tudor
Birth of Elizabeth Tudor . Elizabeth was the second daughter, and fourth child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth was born on 2nd July 1492 at Sheen Palace in Surrey. On 14th September 1495, Elizabeth died at Eltham Palace in Kent, at the age of three years and two months. Her body was placed in the choir of the king's chapel, for eleven days, with masses and requiems sung every day. She was covered by a pall of cloth of gold, with her coat of arms on it, and on lozenges around the chapel. Six horses drew her hearse to Stangate and then across the river to Westminster, where the Prior and monks of Westminster met it to escort it to the Abbey. The hearse was placed in the choir with a cloth of black, fringed with red and white roses and lettered in gold "Jesus est amor meus". The next day after mass, her body was carried to the grave. Her tomb in Westminster Abbey is made from black marble. On top of the monument is a finely polished slab of black Lydian,...