The head of Henry IV, separated from his body when the Abbey of Saint-Denis was looted

Since we are on the subject of lost skulls, another set of aristocratic remains was left without its head. Henry IV (1553-1610), whom I mentioned the other day (https://theparnassian.com/schitaetsia-chto-vo-vremia-sozdaniia-kartiny-favoritka-genrikha-iv-byla-beremenna-pervym-ego-synom-kotorogo-nazovut-sezarom-v-chest-iuliia-tsezaria/), was buried at Saint-Denis. The abbey was plundered during the French Revolution, and the bodies of the monarchs interred there were dragged from their vaults and heaped into a common grave. Henry IV, who had been at rest for 180 years, was not spared the outrage either: his head was severed from the body, and centuries later it is still passing from one pair of hands to another.