Medieval Funerals It was always important for people of high status to be buried with their family or their peers, so long funeral journeys were not unknown. One funeral journey we know of was that of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln; whose body was taken over six days from London to Lincoln in 1200. The stained glass in the Rose window at Lincoln records his funeral and canonisation. 
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Medieval Funerals

It was always important for people of high status to be buried with their family or their peers, so long funeral journeys were not unknown. One funeral journey we know of was that of Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln; whose body was taken over six days from London to Lincoln in 1200. The stained glass in the Rose window at Lincoln records his funeral and canonisation. 

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    I like the bright colors...glass; beautiful even after 800 years.
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