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Canterbury Cathedral

Murder in the Cathedral
While in exile in Normandy Becket denounced Henry II. He planned to excommunicate him. He was told the king was ill and he relented.

Henry wanted to crown his son, Henry the Young King, as his successor. As Archbishop of Canterbury Becket should have officiated. Henry said the Archbishop of York could stand in for him. Becket was outraged. The Pope supported Becket, as did Louis VII. The King and the Archbishop met and were reconciled and the King assented to the Archbishop and punished those members of the clergy who had acted in his stead. They were excommunicated and sent into exile in Normandy.

The archbishop then put together an army, Henry II was so outraged at this that he raged against the archbishop and four knights overhearing his rage undertook to murder the Archbishop. On December 29, 1170, they sought him out at Canterbury Cathedral and murdered him.

HENRY THE YOUNG KING (1155-1183)

Son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
In 1170 Henry was anointed and crowned as Henry II's successor
Initiated a great rebellion in 1173-1174 against his father and then again in 1183 in the course of which he died

did you know?
The murder of Thomas Becket was witnessed and recorded in great detail by Edward Grim.

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1154 Henry II becomes king
Nicholas Breakspear becomes Pope Adrian IV

1155 Henry receives papal bull to conquer and rule Ireland

1162 Thomas Becket becomes archbishop of Canterbury

1164 Constitutions of Clarendon are issued

1165 William I, the Lion, of Scots

1170 Richard de Clare invades Ireland

1177 Henry II's youngest son, John, is made lord of Ireland

1183 Henry the Young King dies

1189 Henry is defeated by his son Richard and Philip II Augustus of France
Richard I, the Lionheart, becomes king

THE FOUR KNIGHTS WHO MURDERED BECKET
• Reginald fitz Urse

• William de Traci

• Hugh of Morville

• Richard Brito

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