Louise de Quengo, buried at the Jacobin convent in the city of Rennes in 1656, was interred with her husband’s preserved heart in a lead urn on top of her coffin. Her husband, Toussaint de Perrien, knight of Brefeillac, had died in 1649. Her own heart remains missing. [1200×1156]

The cardiotaph, or heart urn, of Toussaint de Perrien, the husband of Louise de Quengo. The inscription reads, “Here lies the heart of Toussainct de Perrien, Knigh of Brefeillac, whose bodies lies near Carhaix in the Discalced Carmelite Convent, which he founded, and who died in Rennes on August 30, 1649.” Splitting the heart and the body allowed church patrons like de Perrien to honor two places with their burials, and also provided couples a sentimental way to show their affection even after death.

Louise de Quengo’s body had naturally mummified within her lead coffin. She was dressed as seen here, in a black cloak, a monk’s wool dress, a shirt of undyed twill wool and simple leather-and- cork shoes. Here nunlike veils indicate her religious piety, and the simple clothes indicate her desire to be associated with the Jacobins, who were dedicated to the poor. Her heart, like her husband’s, was removed from her chest. It remains missing as no one knows where de Quengo’s heart was buried. [Source](https://www.livescience.com/58080-photos-renaissance-couple-with-spouse-heart.html)