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Becket was born c. 1119, [4] or in 1120 according to later tradition, [1] at Cheapside, London, on 21 December, the feast day of St Thomas the Apostle. He was the son of Gilbert and Matilda Beket. He was the son of Gilbert and Matilda Beket.
The statue of Thomas Becket (1970) by Edward Bainbridge Copnall is installed in St Paul's Churchyard in London, United Kingdom. [1] It was designated a Grade II Listed building in January 2016. [2] [3]
In particular, the king was determined to end the cult of Thomas Becket, who had upheld the privileges of the church against royal authority. An order was issued in 1538 to change the dedication to Saint Thomas the Apostle and in the following year, a painter from Southwark was employed to cover over images of Becket on the chapel walls. This ...
The Military Order of St Thomas of Acre, "English Historical Review", 92 (1977), pp. 481–503. Vincent, N. Peter des Roches: An Alien in English Politics, 1205–1238, Cambridge, 1996. Watney, J. Some Account of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, in the Cheap, London, and of the Plate of the Mercers' Company, London, 1892.
Thirteenth-century manuscript illumination depicting Thomas Becket's assassination in Canterbury Cathedral – Fitzstephen was an eye-witness. William Fitzstephen (also William fitz Stephen), [1] (died c. 1191) was a cleric and administrator in the service of Thomas Becket.
William of Canterbury (floruit 1170–1177) was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in December 1170. He was present at the murder of the archbishop and admitted in his writings that he ran from the murder scene.
The action occurs between 2 and 29 December 1170, chronicling the days leading up to the martyrdom of Thomas Becket following his absence of seven years in France. Becket's internal struggle is a central focus of the play. The book is divided into two parts. Part one takes place in the Archbishop Thomas Becket's hall on 2 December 1170.
The Becket controversy or Becket dispute was the quarrel between Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket and King Henry II of England from 1163 to 1170. [1] The controversy culminated with Becket's murder in 1170, [2] and was followed by Becket's canonization in 1173 and Henry's public penance at Canterbury in July 1174.