* The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interfaith, legal and educational institute dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious traditions, took its inspiration and namesake from Thomas Becket.

After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket at the cathedral in 1170, Canterbury became one of the most notable towns in Europe, as pilgrims from all parts of Christendom came to visit his shrine.

There was much discussion about the names adopted for most of the colleges with the following alternative names all in consideration at one point or another: for Eliot: Caxton, after William Caxton ; for Keynes: Richborough, a town in Kent ; Anselm, a former Archbishop of Canterbury ; and for Darwin: Anselm ( again ); Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister ; Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop ( this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the Senate ); Conrad ; Elgar, after Edward Elgar ; Maitland ; Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe ; Russell, after Bertrand Russell ( this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council ); Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and Tyler Hill on which the campus stands.

With Jack's compass, Becket can eradicate all pirates, thus securing and expanding the company's territory and increasing its profits while consolidating his own power and wealth.

Coincidentally, they are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket.

In all likelihood, Thomas a Becket composed both the music and the words of " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.

Fragments of the former work have come down to us in the compilation known as the Quadrilogus, which is printed in the fourth volume of J. C. Robertson's Materials for the Histories of Thomas Becket (" Rolls " series ); the miracles are extant in their entirety, and are printed in the second volume of the same collection.

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.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

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.

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.

* Saint Thomas Becket is buried at Canterbury and canonized.

St. Thomas Becket consagrations, death and burial, at wall paintings in Santa Maria de Terrassa ( Terrassa, Catalonia ), romanesque frescoes, ca.

Candle marking the former spot of the shrine of Thomas Becket, at Canterbury Cathedral

and in France, including Église Saint-Thomas de Cantorbéry at Mont-Saint-Aignan ( Upper-Normandy ), Église Saint-Thomas-Becket at Gravelines ( Nord-Pas-de-Calais ), Église Saint-Thomas Becket at Avrieux ( Rhône-Alpes ), Église saint-Thomas Becket at Bénodet ( Brittany ), etc.

* Edward Grim ’ s account of the murder of Thomas Becket at Internet History Sourcebooks Project

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.

Statues, roods, and images were attacked, culminating in September with the dismantling of the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury.

Archbishop Thomas Becket refused to allow William to marry the Countess of Surrey and the young man fled to Matilda's court at Rouen.

During the attack on Becket in 1170 by the four knights, Sir Reginald FitzUrse, Sir Hugh de Morville, Brito and Sir William de Tracy, Brito is said to have broken his sword when chopping at Becket's head.

* The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, built to contain the shrine of Thomas Becket

In 1987, his firm was acquired by Ellerbe Associates, and the merged firm continued as Ellerbe Becket until the end of 2009, when it was acquired by AECOM.

For greater security, an additional round turn may be taken above the first before the line's working end is brought back under itself, creating a Double Becket or figure-of-eight becket.

Heraclius offered the " keys of the Holy Sepulchre, those of the Tower of David and the banner of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ", but not the crown itself, to both Philip II of France and Henry II of England ; the latter, as a grandson of Fulk, was a first cousin of the royal family of Jerusalem, and had promised to go on crusade after the murder of Thomas Becket.

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 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.

Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935.

Becket was first settled in 1740 and was officially incorporated in 1765.

Eraclius offered the kingship to both Philip II of France and Henry II of England: the former was the son of Louis VII, a first cousin of Baldwin V's father ; the latter was a first cousin of Baldwin IV and Sibylla, and had promised to go on crusade after the murder of Thomas Becket.

With the new King of France, Philip II, a minor, the chief hope of external aid was Baldwin's first cousin Henry II, who owed the Pope a penitential pilgrimage on account of the Thomas Becket affair.

Benedictus first makes his appearance in 1174, as the chancellor of Archbishop Richard, the successor of Becket in the primacy.

Thomas Becket ( 1118 – 70 ) was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury on the Sunday after Whit Sunday, and his first act was to ordain that the day of his consecration should be held as a new festival in honour of the Holy Trinity.

One of the first acts ordered by de Gisors in Portsmouth was the donation of land to the Augustinian canons of Southwick Priory so that they could build a chapel " to the glorious honour of the martyr Thomas of Canterbury, one time Archbishop, on ( my ) land which is called Sudewede, the island of Portsea ", Thomas Becket having spent much time in Gisors.

Things go well for the reluctant Edmund at first, particularly after he convinces a dying Lord to sign his lands over to the Crown ,-until a pair of drunken knights ( freshly returned from the Crusades ), overkeen to advance in the royal favour, misinterpret a comment made by him King, and set out to murder the Archbishop ( in reality, the Archbishop Thomas Becket was assassinated in 1170 by knights of Henry II in Canterbury Cathedral ).

His first act was to do penance for the death of Thomas Becket, who, murdered by some of Henry's knights three years earlier, had already been canonized as a saint.

With the new King of France, Philip II, a minor, the chief hope of external aid was Baldwin's first cousin Henry II, who owed the Pope a penitential pilgrimage on account of the Thomas Becket affair.

He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.

The priory became distinguished as an important centre of learning attracting such pupils as Nicholas Breakspeare in 1125 ( who became Adrian IV, the first English Pope, in 1154 ), and Thomas Becket in 1130.

Although Becket at first attempted to resist, he eventually submitted, and then forced the other bishops to swear also.

However, the bells are rung at the start, no book is in evidence ( Becket instead casts down his candle first, followed by the others in attendance ) and nothing to the effect of " until he shall recover himself ...." is pronounced

A little earlier it had been included by St. Thomas Becket in the devotion to the joys and sorrows of Mary, by Blessed Hermann ( d. 1245 ), one of the first spiritual children of Saint Dominic, in his other devotions to Mary, and somewhat later it appeared in St. Bridget's " Book of Revelations ".

In 2005 the Toussaint Monarchs won the House cup just ahead of the Becket Titans, becoming the first House to win two House cups.