Thomas Becket (In Our Time)
1170 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who was Henry II's Chancellor and then Archbishop of Canterbury and who was murdered by knights in Canterbury Cathedral (depicted by Matthew Paris, above). Henry believed that Becket owed him loyalty as he had raised him to the highest offices, and that he should agree to Henry's courts having jurisdiction over 'crimin
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Around 1170
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)