King Richard III, found buried in a parking lot, now to be interred in a nearby cathedral.

King Richard III, the last British monarch to die in battle and whom Shakespeare wrote a play about, was discovered buried under a Leicester, England, cathedral parking lot in 2012.

After exhuming the body and verifying that, indeed, it was Richard, a legal battle ensued over where the body should be re-interred. A group calling itself the Plantagenet Alliance (note: worst potential LARP name ever), who claims to be distantly related to Richard III, and led by Stephen Nicolay, Richard III's 16th grand nephew, argued in court that the former king should be buried in York, a city they believed Richard III was most fond of. (He was the last monarch of the House of York after all.)

The courts disagreed, deciding that Richard will be re-interred at the same cathedral whose parking lot he called home for centuries.

Considering that history suggests Richard III was not a pleasant person--even Shakespeare's interpretation of the man is a machiavellian mastermind with homicidal tendencies--being allowed in a church is a step up in life (or death).