The absence of nightingales in Otford is also ascribed to Becket, who is said to have been so disturbed in his devotions by the song of a nightingale that he commanded that none should sing in the town ever again.

In the town of Strood, also in Kent, Becket is said to have caused the inhabitants of the town and their descendants to be born with tails.

The men of Strood had sided with the king in his struggles against the archbishop, and to demonstrate their support, had cut off the tail of Becket ’ s horse as he passed through the town.

In 1174, the founder's son, also called William d ' Aubigny, established a chapel in the town dedicated to Becket and served by two monks from the priory.

Becket is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

The original " Beckett " for which the town of Becket was named, is an estate or " tithing " which once belonged to the Admiral Lord Barrington ( as in " Great Barrington, MA ).

After a flood in the early twentieth century, most of the industries died out, and today Becket is mostly known as a resort town with an artists ' community surrounding the Jacob's Pillow Company.

The Appalachian Trail passes through the western part of town, circumventing the town of Lee while heading from Tyringham to Washington over Becket Mountain.

The town has a police station near the geographic center of town ( the area known as Becket Center ), and a post office also in Becket Center ( the post office was moved from North Becket to Becket Center in the early 2000s ).

Students in Becket attend the Becket-Washington Elementary School in town for elementary school.

The town is four sided, and is bordered by Lee to the north, Becket and Otis to the east, Monterey to the south, and Great Barrington.

The Appalachian Trail passes through the town, winding down Sky Hill ( a part of Mount Wilcot ), then sweeps through the valley and over Baldy Mountain and towards Becket Mountain.

Located in central Berkshire County along the Hampshire County line, the town, which is roughly shaped, is bordered by Pittsfield to the northwest, Dalton, Hinsdale and Peru to the north, Middlefield to the east, Becket to the southeast, Lee to the southwest, and Lenox to the west.

Route 8 is the only state route through town, passing from Becket to Hinsdale.

The dispute centered around the attempt by Baldwin to build a church dedicated to Saint Thomas Becket, just outside of the town of Canterbury.

The fourth meeting at Fréteval ended in an agreement and Becket decided to return the Canterbury.

After the 1174 fire in Canterbury Cathedral, Ælfheah's remains together with those of Dunstan were placed around the high altar, at which Thomas Becket is said to have commended his life into Ælfheah's care shortly before his martyrdom during the Becket controversy.

The Chapel of St Thomas Becket is a ruin of a 14th century building in Bodmin churchyard.

Whether Henry actually intended to bring about the assassination of Becket is debatable, but there is no question that at the time of the murder, the two men were embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding the power of Royal Courts to exercise jurisdiction over former clergymen.

* 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II ; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.

Kansas City is home to significant national and international architecture firms including ACI Boland, BNIM, 360 Architecture, Ellerbe Becket, HNTB, Populous.

* Kushi Institute is the official web site of the Kushi Institute in Becket, MA, created by Michio Kushi.

One Paramount film, Becket is under different ownership.

* Alexander is a character in Jean Anouilh's play Becket.

* 1170: On December 29, Thomas Becket is murdered.

* Saint Thomas Becket is buried at Canterbury and canonized.

* Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.

* May 3 – Merton Priory ( Thomas Becket School ) is consecrated.

* December 29 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral.

" Becket's Well ", in Otford, Kent, is said to have been created after Becket had become displeased with the taste of the local water.

The first holy image of Becket is thought to be a mosaic icon still visible in Monreale Cathedral, in Sicily, created shortly after his death.

The principal church of the Sicilian city of Marsala is dedicated to St. Thomas Becket.

* Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is set in a company of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

One set of Becket panels is displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The struggle between Church's and King's power is the main theme of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth, of which one of the last scenes features the murder of Thomas Becket.

Thomas Wyatt led an army into London from Kent in 1553, against Mary I. Canterbury became a great pilgrimage site following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, who was eventually canonised in 1246.

The project will be led by the world-renowned sports design firm AECOM ( formerly Ellerbe Becket out of Kansas City ) with design support from Heery Design in conjunction with Construction Managers GE Johnson and Mortenson Construction.

Pavel and Becket carry the wounded Cole into the helicopter and leave, just as Serb reinforcements led by Cpt.

Becket, by France's Jean Anouilh ; ;

A feature of the party will be a presentation by Welton Becket, center architect, of color slides and renderings of the three-building complex.

Eventually, Becket was murdered inside Canterbury Cathedral by four knights who believed themselves to be acting on Henry's behalf.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

The period between Henry's accession and the birth of Eleanor's youngest son was turbulent: Aquitaine, as was the norm, defied the authority of Henry as Eleanor's husband ; attempts to claim Toulouse, the rightful inheritance of Eleanor's grandmother and father, were made, ending in failure ; the news of Louis of France's widowhood and remarriage was followed by the marriage of Henry's son ( young Henry ) to Louis ' daughter Marguerite ; and, most climactically, the feud between the King and Thomas Becket, his Chancellor, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Murray also discussed the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, claiming to show that he too was a pagan by saying that his death " presents many features which are explicable only by the theory that he also was the substitute for a Divine King " ( Murray 171 )

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales recounts the tales told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury and the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.

However, this conflict was symptomatic of medieval English politics, as exemplified by the murder of Thomas Becket during the reign of the later Plantagenet king Henry II, and indeed by Henry VIII's actions centuries later, and as such should not be seen as a defect of William II's reign in particular.

The main sources for the life of Becket are a number of biographies that were written by contemporaries.

According to accounts left by the monk Gervase of Canterbury and eyewitness Edward Grim, they placed their weapons under a tree outside the cathedral and hid their mail armour under cloaks before entering to challenge Becket.

Soon after, the faithful throughout Europe began venerating Becket as a martyr, and on 21 February 1173 — little more than two years after his death — he was canonised by Pope Alexander III in St. Peter's Church in Segni.

As the scion of the leading mercantile dynasty of later centuries, Mercers, Becket was very much regarded as a Londoner by the citizens and was adopted as the London's co-patron saint with St Paul: both their images appeared on the seals of the city and of the Lord Mayor.

* In a 2006 poll by BBC History magazine for " worst Briton " of the previous millennium, Becket came second behind Jack the Ripper.

Frustrated by this fresh demand, Edmund in the summer of 1240 retired to the Cistercian Pontigny Abbey in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, Thomas Becket and Stephen Langton.

Then Burton portrayed the archbishop martyred by Henry II in the title role of Becket, turning in an effective, restrained performance, contrasting with Peter O ' Toole's manic portrayal of Henry.

Despite the example set by most of his recent predecessors, Henry and his second wife, Joan of Navarre, Queen of England, were buried not at Westminster Abbey but at Canterbury Cathedral, on the north side of Trinity Chapel and directly adjacent to the shrine of St Thomas Becket.

Significantly, at his coronation, he was anointed with holy oil that had reportedly been given to Becket by the Virgin Mary shortly before his death in 1170 ; this oil was placed inside a distinct eagle-shaped container of gold.

The wooden panel at the western end of his tomb bears a painting of the martyrdom of Becket, and the tester, or wooden canopy, above the tomb is painted with Henry's personal motto, ' Soverayne ', alternated by crowned golden eagles.

The first Carthusian monastery or ' Charterhouse ' in England was founded by Henry II in Witham Friary, Somerset as penance for the murder of St Thomas Becket.