Burial sites of European monarchs and consorts

This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).

All emperors, with the exception of Charles I, were buried in the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft), at the Capuchin Church, in Vienna.

For a long period, Westminster Abbey was the most important burial place of the English monarchs, whereas early kings were also interred in other parts of England and in their French territories of Anjou and the Normandy.

Burial site of the French Royal Family is the Saint-Denis Basilica, where most of the kings were buried.

The burial place of the Bonaparte family is the Chapelle Impériale in Ajaccio, but the two emperors were interred elsewhere.

Since the 18th century, sovereigns and their spouses have been buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, with the exception of Queen Victoria and Edward VIII, who are interred with other members of the Royal family at Frogmore.

Under the Habsburg reign, the Kapuzinergruft in Vienna ("Imperial Crypt") became the family burial site of the Roman-German emperors; in earlier times the emperors used to be buried in different cities of the Empire (Aix-la-Chapelle, Speyer, Prague, Graz etc.).

Most of the kings were buried in Székesfehérvár basilica or in Oradea Cathedral (Hungarian: Nagyvárad) in today's Romania.

Family burial sites are the Basilica di Superga in Turin and since the unification of Italy the Pantheon in Rome.

Until the dissolution of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy, the princes were buried in Vranov nearby Brno close to their residences in Lednice and Valtice.

In the Middle Ages the king would be buried in the city of his residence which varied between Bergen, Trondheim and Oslo.

From 1380 until 1905 the kingdom was in personal union with Denmark or Sweden with the king mostly residing and being buried outside Norway.

The Norwegian kings of the modern era and their spouses are as an established custom buried at Akershus Fortress in Oslo.

Established in 1299 as a beylik (principality) and gradually became an empire as its territory expanded, lasting until 1922.

The kings were elected, so many dynasties from Lithuania, Sweden, France, Saxony and Poland were taking turns.

The list starts with the unification of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon under the monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.

Queen Christina is the only female monarch who was buried at St Peter's in Rome.

All kings from the Karadordevic dynasty are buried in the St George's chapel in Topola, Serbia.