Becket, St Thomas
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Becket, St Thomas (?1118–70). Henry II appointed him chancellor and made him his intimate friend and companion. In 1162 Thomas reluctantly became archbishop of Canterbury, an office which required him to become the champion of the rights of the Church which Henry was attempting to curtail. In particular he opposed the Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) which re-imposed the relations between Church and State that had prevailed in the time of William I. Becket was exiled on the Continent for seven years; he returned to England in 1170 and after a brief reconciliation with Henry was assassinated on the king's orders in the cathedral at Canterbury on 29 Dec. 1170. The king claimed that his orders had been misinterpreted. Becket's shrine at Canterbury became the most famous in Christendom as a place where miracles were performed, and it was the objective of
Chaucer's pilgrims 200 years later. The story of Becket has been the subject of plays by
Tennyson and T. S.
Eliot (
Murder in the Cathedral). (See also
Anglo-Latin literature.)
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