Have You Seen This Man?

I was truly excited when archaeologists recently found the body of King Richard III of England in an excavation of a parking lot in the vicinity that had been known to be the location of the Greyfriars Church in Leicester, England.  King Richard III had been killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was the decisive battle of the War of the Roses.  Richard had been king for only two years, and unpopular at that:  there were two rebellions against him in those two years. 

It appears that his unpopularity resulted in the post-mortem humiliation of his remains, and then he was, according to the archaeologists who found him, hastily buried in a grave that was too small for him in the Greyfriar's Church.  Knowledge of his burial there was lost until his recent discovery--just over five hundred years.

There is another King of the British Isles whose remains have never been found.  King James IV of Scotland was killed in the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513, after being forced to choose between his alliance with the French and with Britain when his wife's brother, King Henry VIII of England, decided he wanted to re-annex Angevin lands (Anjou, France). 

After the disastrous battle, where it's estimated that anywhere from four to fourteen Scots died for every Englishman killed, James' body was taken to Berwick, Scotland, embalmed, and placed in a lead coffin for transit to London. Placed at the monastery of Sheen in Richmond, James' body awaited King Henry's decision about burial.  The orders were never given, and the body appears to have remained in a storeroom until twenty years later when, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it disappeared.

Did James ever get an actual burial?  Since the monastery was dissolved by Henry's decree, and since he surely knew that his brother-in-law's remains were there, it would seem likely that James was eventually buried, though perhaps not with all the office of a king.