Editing Emma of Normandy (section)

== Death and burial ==
[[File:Winchestercathedralburialchestcanutepossibly.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Mortuary chest from [[Winchester Cathedral]], Winchester, England. This is one of six mortuary chests near the altar in the Cathedral; this one claims to contain the bones of [[Cnut]] and his wife Emma, along with others. The chest is topped with a crown.]]
After her death in 1052, Emma was interred alongside Cnut and Harthacnut in the Old Minster, Winchester, before being transferred to the new cathedral built after the [[Norman Conquest]].{{sfn|Lawson|2013}} During the English Civil War (1642–1651), their remains were disinterred and scattered about the Cathedral floor by parliamentary forces. The jumbled bones were later re-interred.