Adornes Domain
Fifteenth-century chapel modeled on Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, holding a merchant-diplomat's tomb and heart relic.
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This guide to the Adornes Domain in Bruges opens with a split: the tomb inside the chapel holds only the heart of Anselm Adornes, while the rest of him lies buried far to the north, in a country he never meant to die in. It follows the fourteen-month pilgrimage that took him and his son on foot to Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre, and his path from Bruges mayor and cloth merchant to confidant of dukes and, later, of the Scottish crown, which knighted him and made him keeper of the king's palace at Linlithgow. In January 1483 the Scots sent him to calm a rebellion near North Berwick.
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