On This Day In History . . 16 September 1701 . The deposed & exiled King James II of England died . . ◼ He died of a brain haemorrhage on 16 September 1701 at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. James's heart was placed in a silver-gilt locket & given to the convent at Chaillot, & his brain was placed in a lead casket and given to the Scots College in Paris. His entrails were placed in two gilt urns & sent to the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye & the English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer, while the flesh from his right arm was given to the English Augustinian nuns of Paris. . ◼ James's body was laid to rest in a triple sarcophagus (consisting of two wooden coffins & one of lead) at the Chapel of Saint Edmund in the Church of the English Benedictines in the Rue St. Jacques in Paris, with a funeral oration by Henri-Emmanuel de Roquette. James was not buried, but put in one of the side chapels. Lights were kept burning round his coffin until the French Revolution. . ◼ In 1734, the Archbishop of Paris heard evidence to support James's canonisation, but nothing came of it. During the French Revolution, James's tomb was raided. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1701 #KingJamesII #JamesIIofEngland #JamesII #HouseofStuart #Stuarts #KingofEngland #History #Royalty #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D16Sep #OnThisDay #RoyalFamily #RoyalHistory #Monarchy #Monarch #theking (at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2ejvHUg3s-/?igshid=1juk0uax4kolh