Editing John of Bohemia (section)

== Burial ==
[[File:John of Bohemia.jpg|alt=|thumb|John's tomb in the crypt of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Luxembourg City]]
The body of John the Blind was moved to [[Altmünster Abbey|Kloster Altmünster]] ("Old-Minster Abbey") in Luxembourg. When the abbey was destroyed in 1543, the corpse was moved to [[Neumünster Abbey|Kloster Neumünster]] ("New-Minster Abbey") in Luxembourg. During the confusion of the [[French Revolution]], the mortal remains were salvaged by the Boch industrialist family (founders of [[Villeroy & Boch]], ennobled in 1892) and hidden in an attic room in [[Mettlach]] on the [[Saar (river)|Saar River]]. The legend is that the abbey monks asked Pierre-Joseph Boch for this favour.

His son Jean-François Boch met with the future King [[Frederick William IV of Prussia]] on his voyage through the [[Rhineland]] in 1833, offering the remains as a gift. As Frederick William counted John the Blind among his ancestors, he ordered [[Karl Friedrich Schinkel]] to construct a funeral chapel. The chapel was built in 1834 and 1835 near [[Kastel-Staadt]] on a rock above the town. In 1838, on the anniversary of his death, John the Blind was laid in a black marble [[sarcophagus]] in a public ceremony.

In 1945, the Luxembourg government took the chance to obtain possession of the bones. In a [[cloak and dagger]] operation, the remains were moved to the crypt of the [[Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg]]. The inscription on the tomb reads: "{{lang|la|{{Smallcaps|[[Deo optimo maximo|D.O.M.]] Hoc Sub Altari Servatur Ioannes, Rex Bohemiæ, Comes Luxemburgensis, Henrici vii Imperatoris Filius, Caroli iv Imperatoris Pater Wenceslai, Et Sigismundi Imperatorum Avus, Princeps Animo Maximus, obiit mcccxl 30 au.}}}}"<!-- 30 August was used in error, as was the year 1340 --><ref>Translation: To God, most good, most great. Under this altar is preserved John, King of Bohemia, Count of Luxembourg, son of Emperor Henry VII, father of Emperor Charles IV, grandfather of Emperors Wenceslas and Sigismund, a leader very great in spirit. Died August 30, 1340 {{sic}}.</ref>