Tomb of Charles III of Navarre and Eleanor of Castile

The monumental tomb of King Charles III of Navarre and his queen, Eleanor of Castile, in Pamplona Cathedral was constructed in the Gothic style between late 1413 and mid-1419.

The work by a team of craftsmen from France, Burgundy and the Burgundian Netherlands was overseen by Johan Lome [es].

The queen is wearing fashionable clothes and her feet rest on two dogs fighting over a bone, "an allusion to human life gnawed by time."

[1] The base of the tomb is covered in carved mourners (plorantes) representing the funeral procession.

[1] The tomb has two carved and gilded Romance epitaphs in Gothic script on the top of the canopies.

[3] It mentions his descent from Charlemagne and Saint Louis while extolling his recovery of "a great part of boroughs and castles of his kingdom which were in the hands of the king of Castile", his recovery of his patrimony in France that had been confiscated, his building projects and how he "ennobled and exalted [many] who were his subjects.