It is true that Geoffrey Chaucer was the first poet to be buried in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey, but the tomb the marshals point to is not the tomb in which Chaucer was originally buried. This chapter examines the myth whether Chaucer was buried in his own tomb. It seems unlikely that William Caxton, who actually worked in the Abbey precincts, would be so wrong about the location of Chaucer's original grave. It also seems likely that if Nicholas Brigham raised a tomb to the poet, he would have moved the bones to the tomb. The chapter examines why Chaucer would have been translated to a new tomb. The controversy over Chaucer's tomb demonstrates that dead bodies can be meaningful markers of cultural prestige. Where they are located and how they got there remain important to the living, even in a culture that resists profoundly Catholic and medieval idea of the relic.