The monument occupying the most important position in the presbytery is that (No. 6)[77] to Edmond Tudor, Earl of Richmond, son of Owen Tudor and Queen Catherine of Valois (widow of Henry V.) and father of Henry VII., who died in 1456, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars at Caermarthen.[78] But at the dissolution the remains and the tomb were together brought to St. David’s. The position is close to the shrine of St. David, and, as it was unusual to permit any interment in the immediate vicinity of a great shrine, it may be well to note that this tomb was not placed here till after the probable shrine of St. David had been removed. The altar-tomb is in Purbeck marble, and is ornamented with shallow Perpendicular quatrefoils reticulated. Each panel has a shield in the centre, and a brass occupied the leger-stone. These inscriptions were restored by Jones and Freeman[79] from some drawings bound up with a MS. in the possession of the Earl of Cawdor. On the verge: _“Under this Marble Stone here enclos’d, resteth the Bones of that noble Lord_ Edmond, _Earl of_ Richmond, _Father and Brother to Kings, the which departed out of this World in the Year of our Lord God, a thousand four hundred fifty and six, the first Day of the Month of_ November; _on whose Soul, Almighty_ Jesu _have Mercy. Amen.”_ On the tomb (at its foot probably) was: _“Heu! Regum Genitor, & Frater splendidus Heros,_ _Omnis quo micuit Regia Virtus, obit._ _Herculeus Comes Ille tuus_, Richmondia _Duxque_ _Conditur_ Edmundus _his modo Marmoribus._ _Qui Regni Clypeus, Comitum Flos, Malleus Hostis,_ _Vitæ Dexteritas, Pacis Amator erat._ _Hic meditare Vians Te semper vivere posse!_ _Non morieris Homo? Nonne miselle vides_ Cæsar _quem Tremeret Armis, nec vinceret_ Hector _Ipsa devictum Morte ruisse Virum?_ _Cede Metrum Precibus: Dat Regum Conditor Almus_ _Ejus Spiritui Lucida Regna Poli_.”[80] The length and sentiments of the inscription, however, hardly atone for the fact that this is a mean ornament to so important a person, and one cannot help contrasting it with that of his illustrious son--King Henry VII.’s Chapel in Westminster Abbey. With St. David’s shrine we have already dealt (see _ante_, p. 50).