Do we know that he wasn't buried with ceremony at the time? Not with royal ceremony, obviously, but a proper - if quiet - funeral in the Greyfriars church?
His original grave was a hasty, perfunctory one; he was more or less folded into it and there was nothing found with the bones. (The supposed arrowhead in his ribs turned out to be a Roman-era nail that was probably raked up by the gravedigging.) Henry didn't pay for a gravestone until ten years after Bosworth. I had the impression that whatever service he was buried with was probably the bare decencies and not much beyond. [edit] The University of Leicester has been asked this question so many times, it's in the FAQ.
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His original grave was a hasty, perfunctory one; he was more or less folded into it and there was nothing found with the bones. (The supposed arrowhead in his ribs turned out to be a Roman-era nail that was probably raked up by the gravedigging.) Henry didn't pay for a gravestone until ten years after Bosworth. I had the impression that whatever service he was buried with was probably the bare decencies and not much beyond. [edit] The University of Leicester has been asked this question so many times, it's in the FAQ.