Thomas Becket, the Glossary
Thomas Becket, also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120 – 29 December 1170), served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then notably as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170.[1]
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211 relations: Abbess, Abbey, Alan of Tewkesbury, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anglican Communion, Arbroath Abbey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archdeacon of Canterbury, Asceticism, Assassinio nella cattedrale, Attributed arms, Auxerre, Avrieux, Barking Abbey, Bénodet, BBC History, Becket, Becket (Tennyson play), Becket Casket, Becket Keys Church of England School, Becket Law, Benedict of Peterborough, Benefice, Benet of St Albans, Beverley, Bishop of London, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Winchester, Blood as food, Blood of Christ, Bologna, Bradninch, Caen, Calendar of saints (Church of England), Canon law, Canonization, Canterbury, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Festival, Catholic Church, Champlevé, Chancellor, Chasse (casket), Cheapside, Choir (architecture), Christian pilgrimage, Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel, Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth, Churches Conservation Trust, ... Expand index (161 more) »
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- Martyred Roman Catholic bishops
- Medieval murder victims
Abbess
An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey.
Abbey
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
Alan of Tewkesbury
Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury (date of birth unknown) is said by Gervase of Canterbury (contemporary chronicler) to be of English (i.e. non-Norman) descent. Thomas Becket and Alan of Tewkesbury are 12th-century births.
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Alfonso VIII of Castile
Alfonso VIII (11 November 11555 October 1214), called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of Las Navas (el de las Navas), was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet.
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Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
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Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.
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Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. Thomas Becket and archbishop of Canterbury are archbishops of Canterbury.
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Archdeacon of Canterbury
The Archdeacon of Canterbury is a senior office-holder in the Diocese of Canterbury (a division of the Church of England Province of Canterbury).
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Asceticism
Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.
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Assassinio nella cattedrale
Assassinio nella cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral) is an opera in two acts and an intermezzo by the Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti.
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Attributed arms
Attributed arms are Western European coats of arms given retrospectively to persons real or fictitious who died before the start of the age of heraldry in the latter half of the 12th century.
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Auxerre
Auxerre is the capital (prefecture) of the Yonne department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Paris.
Avrieux
Avrieux is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
Barking Abbey
Barking Abbey is a former royal monastery located in Barking, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
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Bénodet
Bénodet (Breton: Benoded) is a commune in the Finistère department and administrative region of Brittany in north-western France.
BBC History
BBC History is a British magazine devoted to both British and world history, and aimed at readers of all levels of knowledge and interest.
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Becket
Becket or The Honour of God (Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu), often shortened to Becket, is a 1959 stage play written in French by Jean Anouilh.
Becket (Tennyson play)
Becket is an 1884 historical play by the British writer Alfred, Lord Tennyson, inspired by the murder of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket by agents of Henry II in 1170.
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Becket Casket
The Becket Casket is a reliquary made in about 1180–90 in Limoges, France, and depicts one of the most infamous events in English history, the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
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Becket Keys Church of England School
Becket Keys Church of England School is a free school established in Brentwood, Essex, England in 2012.
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Becket Law
Becket, also known as the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is a non-profit public interest law firm based in Washington, D.C., that describes its mission as "defending the freedom of religion of people of all faiths".
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Benedict of Peterborough
Benedict, sometimes known as Benedictus Abbas (Latin for "Benedict the Abbot"; died 29 September 1193), was abbot of Peterborough.
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Benefice
A benefice or living is a reward received in exchange for services rendered and as a retainer for future services.
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Benet of St Albans
Benet of St Albans was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket.
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Beverley
Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
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Bishop of London
The bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.
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Bishop of Salisbury
The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury.
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Bishop of Winchester
The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England.
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Blood as food
Blood as food is the usage of blood in food, religiously and culturally.
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Blood of Christ
Blood of Christ, also known as the Most Precious Blood, in Christian theology refers to the physical blood actually shed by Jesus Christ primarily on the Cross, and the salvation which Christianity teaches was accomplished thereby, or the sacramental blood (wine) present in the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, which some Christian denominations believe to be the same blood of Christ shed on the Cross.
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Bologna
Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.
Bradninch
Bradninch is a small town, civil parish and manor in Devon, England, lying about south of Cullompton.
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Caen
Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.
Calendar of saints (Church of England)
The Church of England commemorates many of the same saints as those in the General Roman Calendar, mostly on the same days, but also commemorates various notable (often post-Reformation) Christians who have not been canonised by Rome, with a particular though not exclusive emphasis on those of English origin.
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Canon law
Canon law (from κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
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Canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.
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Canterbury
Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.
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Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral, formally Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, is the cathedral of the archbishop of Canterbury, the leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
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Canterbury Festival
The Canterbury Festival is Kent's international festival of the arts.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Champlevé
Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel.
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Chancellor
Chancellor (cancellarius) is a title of various official positions in the governments of many countries.
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Chasse (casket)
A chasse, châsse or box reliquary is a shape commonly used in medieval metalwork for reliquaries and other containers.
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Cheapside
Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.
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Choir (architecture)
A choir, also sometimes called quire, is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
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Christian pilgrimage
Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative (especially in the Holy Land) and to sites associated with later saints or miracles.
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Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel
The Church of St Thomas à Becket is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Capel, Kent, England.
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Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth
The Church of St Thomas the Martyr at Overmonnow, Monmouth, south east Wales, is located beside the medieval Monnow Bridge across the River Monnow.
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Churches Conservation Trust
The Churches Conservation Trust is a registered charity whose purpose is to protect historic churches at risk in England.
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Cilice
A cilice, also known as a sackcloth, was originally a garment or undergarment made of coarse cloth or animal hair (a hairshirt) worn close to the skin.
Cistercians
The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.
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City Bridge Foundation
City Bridge Foundation is the working name of the historic Bridge House Estates, which originated in the late eleventh century and was formally established by royal charter in 1282 by the City of London Corporation in London, England.
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City of London
The City of London, also known as the City, is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the ancient centre, and constitutes, along with Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London and one of the leading financial centres of the world.
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Clarendon Palace
Clarendon Palace is a medieval ruin east of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.
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Coat of arms of England
The coat of arms of England is the coat of arms historically used as arms of dominion by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England, and now used to symbolise England generally.
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Constable & Robinson
Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.
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Constitutions of Clarendon
The Constitutions of Clarendon were a set of legislative procedures passed by Henry II of England in 1164.
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Continental Europe
Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.
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Crozier
A crozier or crosier (also known as a paterissa, pastoral staff, or bishop's staff) is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, and some Anglican, Lutheran, United Methodist and Pentecostal churches.
Crypt
A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building.
Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.
Diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Dissolution of the monasteries
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.
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Edict
An edict is a decree or announcement of a law, often associated with monarchies, but it can be under any official authority.
Edward Grim
Edward Grim (died 1189) was a monk from Cambridge who visited Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday 29 December 1170 when Thomas Becket was murdered. Thomas Becket and Edward Grim are 12th-century births.
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Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile
Eleanor of England (Leonor; – 31 October 1214), was Queen of Castile and Toledo as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile.
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Esztergom
Esztergom (Gran; Solva or Strigonium; Ostrihom, known by alternative names) is a city with county rights in northern Hungary, northwest of the capital Budapest.
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Eucharist
The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.
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Excommunication
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments.
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Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university.
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Fermo Cathedral
Fermo Cathedral (Cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria Assunta in Cielo; Duomo di Fermo) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Fermo, region of Marche, Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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Fermo chasuble of St. Thomas Becket
The Fermo chasuble of St.
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Four Nights in Knaresborough
Four Nights in Knaresborough is a play written by Paul Corcoran (now known as Paul Webb) and first performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London in 1999.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. Thomas Becket and Geoffrey Chaucer are people from the City of London.
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Geoffrey Ridel (bishop of Ely)
Geoffrey Ridel (died August 1189) was the nineteenth Lord Chancellor of England, from 1162 to 1173. Thomas Becket and Geoffrey Ridel (bishop of Ely) are lord Chancellors and lord chancellors of England.
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis; Gerallt Cymro; Gerald de Barri) was a Cambro-Norman priest and historian.
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Gervase of Canterbury
Gervase of Canterbury (Latin: Gervasus Cantuariensis or Gervasius Dorobornensis) (c. 1141 – c. 1210) was an English chronicler.
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Gilbert Foliot
Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London.
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Gilbertine Order
The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest.
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Golden jubilee
A golden jubilee marks a 50th anniversary.
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Gravelines
Gravelines is a commune in the Nord department in Northern France.
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Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence
Guernes de Pont-Sainte-Maxence, also known as Garnier, was a 12th-century French scribe and one of the ten contemporary biographers of Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury.
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Gules
In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red.
Hagiography
A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.
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Henry II of England
Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.
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Henry III of England
Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.
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Henry Irving
Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the West End's Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre.
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Henry of Blois
Henry of Blois (c. 1096 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death.
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Henry the Young King
Henry the Young King (28 February 1155 – 11 June 1183) was the eldest son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine to survive childhood.
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Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
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Herbert of Bosham
Herbert of Bosham was a twelfth-century English biographer of Thomas Becket who held a foremost place among the scholars in Thomas's household. Thomas Becket and Herbert of Bosham are 12th-century births.
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Holy Land
The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.
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Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland
Sir Hugh de Morville (died c. 1173) was an Anglo-Norman knight who served King Henry II of England in the late 12th century. Thomas Becket and Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland are 12th-century births.
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Ildebrando Pizzetti
Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as being a musicologist and a music critic.
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Interdict
In Catholic canon law, an interdict is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the Fordham University History Department and Center for Medieval Studies.
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.
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Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.
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John Hudson (historian)
John Geoffrey Henry Hudson, (born 7 May 1962) FBA, FRSE, FRHistS is an English medieval historian and Latin translator.
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John of Salisbury
John of Salisbury (late 1110s – 25 October 1180), who described himself as Johannes Parvus ("John the Little"), was an English author, philosopher, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres. Thomas Becket and John of Salisbury are 12th-century English clergy.
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Josceline de Bohon
Josceline de Bohon or Bohun (c. 1111–1184) was an Anglo-Norman religious leader.
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Ken Follett
Kenneth Martin Follett, (born 5 June 1949) is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.
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Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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Knaresborough Castle
Knaresborough Castle is a ruined fortress overlooking the River Nidd in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England.
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Knights of Saint Thomas
The Hospitallers of St Thomas of Canterbury at Acre, usually called the Knights of St Thomas was a Christian military order of the Catholic Church.
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L'Aigle
L'Aigle is a commune in the Orne department in Normandy in northwestern France.
Lapford
Lapford is a village and civil parish in Mid Devon in the English county of Devon.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latin Church
The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.
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Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral, also called Lincoln Minster and formally the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, is a Church of England cathedral in Lincoln, England.
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Lord Chancellor
The Lord Chancellor, formally titled Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, is the highest-ranking traditional minister among the Great Officers of State in Scotland and England in the United Kingdom, nominally outranking the prime minister. Thomas Becket and Lord Chancellor are lord Chancellors.
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Louis VII of France
Louis VII (1120 – 18 September 1180), called the Younger or the Young (le Jeune) to differentiate him from his father Louis VI, was King of France from 1137 to 1180.
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Lucas, Archbishop of Esztergom
Lucas (Lukács; 1120 – 1181), also known as Luke, was a Hungarian prelate and diplomat in the 12th century.
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Marsala Cathedral
Marsala Cathedral (Italian - duomo di San Tommaso di Canterbury) is the largest church in the town of Marsala, Sicily, and the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo.
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Martyr
A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Merton Priory
Merton Priory was an English Augustinian priory founded in 1114 by Gilbert Norman, Sheriff of Surrey under King Henry I (1100–1135).
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Misfeasance
Misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfeasance are types of failure to discharge public obligations existing by common law, custom, or statute.
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Monreale Cathedral
Monreale Cathedral (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova di Monreale; Duomo di Monreale) is a Catholic church in Monreale, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily.
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Mont-Saint-Aignan
Mont-Saint-Aignan is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the region of Normandy, northwestern France.
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Murder in the Cathedral
Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot, first performed in 1935 (published the same year).
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Normandy
Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.
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Normans
The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.
Northampton Castle
Northampton Castle in Northampton, was one of the most prominent Norman castles in England.
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Nottingham alabaster
Nottingham alabaster is a term used to refer to the English sculpture industry, mostly of relatively small religious carvings, which flourished from the fourteenth century until the early sixteenth century.
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Old St Paul's Cathedral
Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral.
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Or (heraldry)
In heraldry, or (/ɔːʁ/; French for "gold") is the tincture of gold and, together with argent (silver), belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals".
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Otford
Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Papal legate
A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the Pope's legate. A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the Pope to foreign nations, to some other part of the Catholic Church, or representatives of the state or monarchy.
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Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Penance
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of repentance for sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.
Peter Seamus O'Toole (2 August 1932 – 14 December 2013) was an English stage and film actor.
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Peterborough Cathedral
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom.
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Pontifical vestments
Pontifical vestments, also referred to as episcopal vestments or pontificals, are the liturgical vestments worn by bishops (and by concession some other prelates) in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, in addition to the usual priestly vestments for the celebration of the mass, other sacraments, sacramentals, and canonical hours.
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Pontigny Abbey
Pontigny Abbey (Abbaye de Pontigny), the church of which in recent decades has also been the cathedral of the Mission de France, otherwise the Territorial Prelature of Pontigny (Cathédrale-abbatiale de Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption à Pontigny), was a Cistercian monastery located in Pontigny on the River Serein, in the present diocese of Sens and department of Yonne, Burgundy, France.
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Pope Alexander III
Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – 30 August 1181), born Roland (Rolando), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
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Portsmouth Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, commonly known as Portsmouth Cathedral, is an Anglican cathedral church in the centre of Old Portsmouth in Portsmouth, England.
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Prebendary
A prebendary is a member of the Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church.
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Prince's Trust
The Prince's Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth y Tywysog) is a United Kingdom-based charity founded in 1976 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) to help vulnerable young people get their lives on track.
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Province of Canterbury
The Province of Canterbury, or less formally the Southern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces which constitute the Church of England.
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Provost (religion)
A provost is a senior official in a number of Christian churches.
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Quadrivium
From the time of Plato through the Middle Ages, the quadrivium (plural: quadrivia) was a grouping of four subjects or arts—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—that formed a second curricular stage following preparatory work in the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
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Ralph de Diceto
Ralph de Diceto or Ralph of Diss (Radulfus de Diceto) was archdeacon of Middlesex, dean of St Paul's Cathedral (from), and the author of a major chronicle divided into two partsoften treated as separate worksthe Abbreviationes Chronicorum (Latin for "Abbreviations of Chronicles") from the birth of Jesus to the 1140s and the Imagines or Ymagines Historiarum ("Images of Histories") from that point until 1202.
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Reginald Fitzurse
Sir Reginald FitzUrse (1145–1173) was one of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170.
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Reliquary
A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine, by the French term châsse., and historically also a type of ''phylactery'') is a container for relics.
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Revolt of 1173–1174
The Revolt of 1173–1174 was a rebellion against King Henry II of England by three of his sons, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their rebel supporters.
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Richard Burton
Richard Burton (born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.
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Richard le Breton
Sir Richard le Breton or Richard de Brito (fl. 1170) was one of the four knights who in 1170 murdered Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Robert of Cricklade
Robert of Cricklade (–1174 × 1179) was a medieval English writer and prior of St Frideswide's Priory in Oxford.
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Robert of Ghent
Robert of Ghent, also called Robert de Gant, (c. 1085–after 1154) was Lord Chancellor of England and Dean of York in the 12th century. Thomas Becket and Robert of Ghent are lord Chancellors and lord chancellors of England.
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Robert of Torigni
Robert of Torigni or Torigny (Robert de Torigni; –1186), also known as Robert of the Mont (Robertus de Monte; Robert de Monte; also Robertus de Monte Sancti Michaelis, in reference to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel), was a Norman monk, prior, and abbot.
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Roger de Bailleul
Roger de Bailleul (died 25 September 1179) was a medieval Benedictine monk, abbot of Bec, and archbishop-elect of Canterbury. Thomas Becket and Roger de Bailleul are 12th-century English Roman Catholic archbishops and archbishops of Canterbury.
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Roger de Pont L'Évêque
Roger de Pont L'Évêque (or Robert of Bishop's Bridge; c. 1115–1181) was Archbishop of York from 1154 to 1181. Thomas Becket and Roger de Pont L'Évêque are 12th-century English Roman Catholic archbishops.
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Roger of Howden
Roger of Howden or Hoveden (died 1202) was a 12th-century English chronicler, diplomat and head of the minster of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Thomas Becket and Roger of Howden are 12th-century births.
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Saint
In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.
Salamanca
Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.
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San Nicolás de Soria
The Church of San Nicolás de Soria (Spanish: Iglesia de San Nicolás) is now only ruined remnants of a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic, former church located in Soria, Spain.
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Saracen
German woodcut depicting Saracens Saracen was a term used both in Greek and Latin writings between the 5th and 15th centuries to refer to the people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta.
Secular clergy
In Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life.
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Segni
Segni is an Italian town and comune located in Lazio.
Sens
Sens is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, 120 km from Paris.
Shrine
A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a sacred space dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of respect, wherein they are venerated or worshipped.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Simon Schama
Sir Simon Michael Schama (born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter.
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Sound bite
A sound bite or soundbite is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often used to promote or exemplify the full length piece.
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Southwark
Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.
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St Thomas à Becket Church, Pensford
St Thomas à Becket Church in Pensford, Somerset southwest England, dates from the 14th century, active in 1341, although only the tower remains from that date, the rest of the church having been rebuilt in 1868 by Giles and Robinson Architects and the church was reconsecrated in 1869.
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St Thomas à Becket Church, Widcombe
St Thomas à Becket Church is a parish church of Widcombe in Bath, Somerset southwest England, and is one of a number of churches named after Thomas Becket.
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St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School
St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School is a primary school located in Brentwood, Essex in England.
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St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Canterbury
St Thomas of Canterbury Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Canterbury, Kent, England.
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St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford
St Thomas the Martyr Church is a Church of England parish church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition, in Oxford, England, near Oxford railway station in Osney.
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St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol
St Thomas the Martyr is a former Church of England parish church on St Thomas Street in the Redcliffe district of the English port city of Bristol.
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St Thomas' Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England.
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St. Dunstan's, Canterbury
St.
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Stephen Langton
Stephen Langton (c. 1150 – 9 July 1228) was an English cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1207 until his death in 1228. Thomas Becket and Stephen Langton are archbishops of Canterbury and Burials at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Strood
Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East England.
Suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
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Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
Sussex
Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.
Sword
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting.
Szenttamás (Esztergom)
Szenttamás (meaning: "Saint Thomas" (for Saint Thomas Becket) is the eastern part of the city of Esztergom in Hungary, on the right bank of the river Danube. It was a separate village until 1895, when it was merged with the "Royal Esztergom" as 2nd district, along with neighboring Víziváros and Szentgyörgymező.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.
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Terrassa
Terrassa (Tarrasa) is a city in central-eastern Catalonia and in the province of Barcelona (Spain).
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Teutonic Order
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Thómas saga Erkibyskups
Thómas saga Erkibyskups (Saga of Archbishop Thomas) is an Icelandic saga on Saint Thomas Becket written in the 14th century and based on earlier sources: a now lost "Life" by Robert of Cricklade which was written soon after Becket's murder, a "Life" by Benet of St Albans, and an Icelandic translation of the "Quadrilogus" (a composite life based on 12th-century biographers).
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The Calendar of the Church Year
The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar found in the 1979 ''Book of Common Prayer'', and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, with additions made at recent General Conventions.
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Mercers' Company
The Mercers' Company, or the Worshipful Company of Mercers, is a livery company of the City of London in the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies.
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The Pillars of the Earth
The Pillars of the Earth is a historical novel by British author Ken Follett published in 1989 about the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge, England. Thomas Becket and the Pillars of the Earth are Christianity in medieval England.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company, LLC (usually credited or abbreviated as TWC) was an American independent film studio, founded in New York City by Bob and Harvey Weinstein on March 10, 2005.
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Theobald of Bec
Theobald of Bec (c. 1090 – 18 April 1161) was a Norman archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161. Thomas Becket and Theobald of Bec are 12th-century English Roman Catholic archbishops, 12th-century English clergy, archbishops of Canterbury and Burials at Canterbury Cathedral.
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Thierville
Thierville is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.
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Thomas Nashe
Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601; also Nash) was an Elizabethan playwright, poet, satirist and a significant pamphleteer.
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Translation (relic)
In Christianity, the translation of relics is the removal of holy objects from one locality to another (usually a higher-status location); usually only the movement of the remains of the saint's body would be treated so formally, with secondary relics such as items of clothing treated with less ceremony.
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Trinity Chapel
Trinity Chapel at the east end of Canterbury Cathedral forms part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Trivium
The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Vespers
Vespers is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgical rites), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran liturgies.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" (also expressed as "troublesome priest" or "meddlesome priest") is a quote attributed to Henry II of England preceding the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.
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William de Tracy
Sir William de Tracy (died) was a knight and the feudal baron of Bradninch, Devon, with caput at the manor of Bradninch near Exeter, and was lord of the manors (amongst very many others) of Toddington, Gloucestershire and of Moretonhampstead, Devon. Thomas Becket and William de Tracy are 12th-century births.
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William Fitzstephen
William Fitzstephen (also William fitz Stephen), (died c. 1191) was a cleric and administrator in the service of Thomas Becket.
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William II of Sicily
William II (December 115311 November 1189), called the Good, was king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189.
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William of Canterbury
William of Canterbury (floruit 1170–1177) was a medieval English monk and biographer of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in December 1170. Thomas Becket and William of Canterbury are 12th-century English clergy.
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William of Newburgh
William of Newburgh or Newbury (Guilelmus Neubrigensis, Wilhelmus Neubrigensis, or Willelmus de Novoburgo. 1136 – 1198), also known as William Parvus, was a 12th-century English historian and Augustinian canon of Anglo-Saxon descent from Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire.
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William the Lion
William I the Lion (Uilleam an Leòmhann), sometimes styled William I (Uilleam MacEanraig; label) and also known by the nickname labelUilleam Garbh; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10.
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Winchester
Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.
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See also
1170 deaths
- Abu Hamid al-Gharnati
- Aindileas Ua Chlúmháin
- Al-Mustanjid
- Albert the Bear
- Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden
- Eberhard II von Otelingen
- Eble III of Ventadorn
- Eble IV of Ventadorn
- Eliezer ben Nathan
- Empress Tudan (Digunai's wife)
- Frederick V, Duke of Swabia
- Gaston V, Viscount of Béarn
- Gerung of Meissen
- Godric of Finchale
- Gonçalo Mendes da Maia
- Gwangpyeong
- Heilika of Lengenfeld
- Henry of Essex
- Hugh of Noara
- Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd
- Ibn Sa'ada
- John of Tufara
- John, Count of Eu
- Joseph Kimhi
- Lope Díaz I de Haro
- Meshullam ben Jacob
- Minamoto no Ienaga
- Minamoto no Tametomo
- Owain Gwynedd
- Phagmo Drupa Dorje Gyalpo
- Qutb al-Din Mawdud
- Reginald II, Count of Bar
- Robert Fitzharding
- Ruaidhri Mac Aedha
- Ruben II
- Saint Gerlach
- Thomas Becket
- Ulrich of Attems
- Wang Chongyang
- Werner (bishop of Płock)
- Zishou Miaozong
12th-century English Roman Catholic archbishops
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Baldwin of Forde
- Geoffrey (archbishop of York)
- Gerard (archbishop of York)
- Henry Murdac
- Hilary of Chichester
- Hubert Walter
- Ralph d'Escures
- Reginald Fitz Jocelin
- Richard of Dover
- Roger de Bailleul
- Roger de Pont L'Évêque
- Theobald of Bec
- Thomas Becket
- Thomas II of York
- Thurstan
- William I of Tyre
- William de Corbeil
- William of York
12th-century English clergy
- Alexander (Dean of Wells)
- Baldric de Segillo
- Clarembald (abbot)
- Geoffrey de Bocland
- Geoffrey of Coldingham
- Gervase of Blois
- Gilbert of Hastings
- Godfrey (Archdeacon of Leicester)
- Hamo (dean of York)
- Hugh Barre
- Isaac of Stella
- John Brancastre
- John of Salisbury
- Peter de Leia
- Ralph de Warneville
- Reimund
- Reinald of Stavanger
- Robert (archdeacon of Totnes)
- Robert of Bridlington
- Serlo (abbot of Gloucester)
- Simon de Tosny
- Theobald of Bec
- Thomas Becket
- Walter (Archdeacon of Leicester)
- William Brito
- William of Canterbury
12th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
- Albert of Louvain
- Charles the Good
- Gerard of Clairvaux (died 1177)
- Harold of Gloucester
- Ida of Toggenburg
- Pietro Parenzo
- Robert of Bury
- Thiemo
- Thomas Becket
Burials at Canterbury Cathedral
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Cosmo Gordon Lang
- Donald Coggan
- Edward White Benson
- Edward Youde
- Edward the Black Prince
- Frederick Temple
- Hadrian à Saravia
- Henry Chichele
- Henry Deane (archbishop of Canterbury)
- Henry IV of England
- Hewlett Johnson
- Hubert Walter
- Joan of Navarre, Queen of England
- John Bale
- John Kemp
- John Morton (cardinal)
- John Peckham
- John Stafford (bishop)
- John de Stratford
- John de Ufford
- Lanfranc
- Michael Ramsey
- Orlando Gibbons
- Ralph d'Escures
- Randall Davidson
- Reginald Pole
- Richard of Dover
- Samuel Shuckford
- Simon Islip
- Simon Mepeham
- Simon Sudbury
- Stephen Langton
- Theobald of Bec
- Thomas Arundel
- Thomas Becket
- Thomas Bourchier (cardinal)
- Thomas Bradwardine
- Walter Reynolds
- William Courtenay
- William Lovelace (MP, died 1577)
- William Temple (bishop)
- William Warham
- William Whittlesey
- William de Corbeil
Christianity in medieval England
- Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England
- Becket controversy
- Canterbury–York dispute
- Cardinal protector of England
- Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
- Compromise of Avranches
- De heretico comburendo
- Dowry of Mary
- Durham Liber Vitae
- Hatton Gospels
- Heresy Act 1382
- Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
- Knights Templar in England
- Laudabiliter
- Lollardy
- Month's mind
- Ormulum
- Our Lady of Ipswich
- Our Lady of Walsingham
- Our Lady of Willesden
- Parish ale
- Priest–penitent privilege in pre-Reformation England
- Regularis Concordia (Winchester)
- Religion in Medieval England
- St Edmund's Chapel
- Statute of Bigamy
- Statute of Provisors
- Taxatio Ecclesiastica
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Thomas Becket
Deaths by stabbing in England
- 2011 murder of the Ding family
- 2024 Southport stabbing
- Andrew Pennington
- Antoinette Saint-Huberty
- Christopher Marlowe
- David Amess
- Death of Keith Lyon
- Desmond Noonan
- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
- Jo Cox
- John Hoyle (died 1692)
- Joshua Ribera
- Killing of Gracie Spinks
- Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues
- Mary Pradd
- Murder of Ann Maguire
- Murder of Breck Bednar
- Murder of George Harry Storrs
- Murder of Jonathan Henry
- Murder of Lesley Molseed
- Murder of Ross Parker
- Murder of Sasha Marsden
- Murder of Stephen Oake
- Murder of Una Crown
- Murder of William de Cantilupe
- Murder of the Kumari-Baker sisters
- Pat Regan
- Peasenhall murder
- Peterborough ditch murders
- Pottery Cottage murders
- Richard Huckle
- Thomas Becket
Martyred Roman Catholic bishops
- Óscar Romero
- Adrian of May
- Dermot O'Hurley
- Florentino Asensio Barroso
- Francis Xavier Ford
- Galactorius of Lescar
- Gerard of Csanád
- Jón Arason
- Jean Marie du Lau
- John Fisher
- John Scotus (bishop of Mecklenburg)
- Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert
- Luigi Versiglia
- Oliver Plunkett
- Ramon Strauch i Vidal
- Thomas Becket
Medieval murder victims
- Armentarius (moneylender)
- Bartolomeo II della Scala
- Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
- Cangrande II della Scala
- Conrad Dorso and John the One-Eyed
- Engelbert II of Berg
- Galeazzo Maria Sforza
- James I of Scotland
- John the Fearless
- Louis I, Duke of Orléans
- Maximus (consul 523)
- Nehemiah ben Hushiel
- Paolo Alboino della Scala
- Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall
- Stephanie Alfonso of Castile
- Thomas Becket
- Tremorus of Brittany
- Vlad II Dracul
- William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas
- William de Lode
- William of Drogheada
References
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