Editing Henry III of Castile (section)

== Tomb ==
[[File:Sepulcro de Enrique III, rey de Castilla y León. Capilla de los Reyes Nuevos de la Catedral de Toledo.jpg|thumb|The tomb of Henry III of Castile. Chapel of the New Monarchs of Toledo.]]
[[File:Sepulcro de Catalina de Lancáster.JPG|thumb|right|Catherine's tomb]]

After his death, Henry's body was taken to the city of Toledo, where he was interred in a tomb in the Chapel of the New Monarchs of the [[Cathedral of Toledo]], and his remains are still there today.<ref>{{cite book
| last = Del Arco y Garay
| first = Ricardo
| editor = Instituto Jerónimo Zurita. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
| title = Sepulcros de la Casa Real de Castilla|language=es |trans-title=Tombs of the Castilian royal family
| url = 	
| edition = 1st
| year = 1954
| publisher= Madrid
| pages = 
| chapter = 
}}</ref> The tomb is located above the choir stalls on the Gospel side and is in the [[Plateresque]] style.  The box part is decorated with the shields of Castile and León, and the lower interior has three panels decorated with trophies.  Above the three panels two cherubs hold a plaque on which is engraved the Monarch's epitaph in medieval Spanish:<ref>{{cite book
| last = Elorza
| first = Juan C.
| author2=Lourdes Vaquero |author3=Belén Castillo |author4=Marta Negro
| editor = Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Bienestar Social
| title = El Panteón Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. Los enterramientos de los reyes de León y de Castilla
| url = 	
| edition = 2nd
| year = 1990
| isbn = 84-241-9999-5
| pages = 
| chapter = 
| publisher = Junta de Castilla y León
}}</ref>
{{quote|{{verse translation|language=osp|italicsoff=y|{{sc2|AQUI IACE EL MUI TEMIDO Y JUSTICIERO REI DON ENRIQUE DE DULCE MEMORIA QUE DIOS DE SANTO PARAISO HIJO DEL CATHOLICO REI DON JUAN NIETO DEL NOBLE CAVALLERO DON ENRIQUE EN 16 AÑOS QUE REINO FUE CASTILLA TEMIDA Y HONRRADA NACIO EN BURGOS DIA DE SAN FRANCISCO Y MURIO DIA DE NABIDAD EN TOLEDO IENDO A LA GUERRA DE LOS MOROS CON LOS NOBLES DEL REINO FINO AÑO DEL SEÑOR DE 1407.}}
|Here lies the much feared and righteous king Henry, of sweet memory, may God [give him] the Holy Paradise, [he was] son of the Catholic King John I and grandson of the noble knight Henry[.] In the 16 years he reigned, Castile was feared and honored[. He] was born in Burgos on the day of St Francis and died on Christmas Day in Toledo, going to war against the Moors with the kingdom's nobles, finishing AD 1407.}}
}}

There is a recumbent statue of Henry III over the tomb, made in polychrome alabaster. Henry appears clothed in a Franciscan habit, although his hands are holding his sword in his girdle, which runs parallel to the Cordón de San Francisco. The king's head in his crown rests on three rich cushions, and his feet are bare. Four kneeling angels are at the corners of the statue.