Thomas Becket, a later Archbishop of Canterbury, prayed to him just before his own murder in Canterbury Cathedral.

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 )

The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.

Thomas Becket ( also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket ; circa 1118 – 29 December 1170 ) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170.

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.

After the murder of his erstwhile friend and later opponent Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, the penitent King Henry II commissioned a new stone bridge in place of the old, with a chapel at its centre dedicated to Becket as martyr.

The film is sympathetic towards the left wing revolutionaries and strongly critical of the U. S .- supported death squads, focusing on their murder of four American churchwomen, including Jean Donovan, and their assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero.

He was sentenced to death as head of the conspiration to murder Engelbert I. Archbishop of Cologne, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Duke of Westphalia and Count of Berg-a close relative-in 1226.

Finally, there was the long-standing difficulty involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

In 1012, following the capture and murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the sack of Canterbury, the Danes were bought off with another 48, 000 troy pounds ( 17, 900 kg ) of silver.

On 22 June, 1680 Cameron, accompanied by 20 followers, including David Hackston, who was wanted for his part in the murder of Archbishop Sharp, rode into the town of Sanquhar in Nithsdale.

Henry IV had been involved in the murder of Richard in 1400, and in that of Archbishop Richard le Scrope, and made a vow to expiate his guilt by founding 3 monasteries, which vow he died before fulfilling.

His earliest writings, which were anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland: the execution of James Mitchell on a charge of having attempted to murder Archbishop James Sharp, and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, for high treason and rebellion ( Ravillac Redivivus, 1678 ; The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants, 1680 ).

It was not until the middle of 1943 that Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, publicly came out against the murder of Croatian Jews ( most of whom had been killed by that time ) the Serbs, and other nationalities.

However, after the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket in 1170, pilgrims began to make the journey to Canterbury Cathedral and Sittingbourne became a useful hostelry for many travellers.

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 ).

Henry II built a church there dedicated to Thomas Becket in 1176 in an attempt to make up for his unwitting role in the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

His mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, who had been feuding with her husband, joined the cause as did many others upset by Henry's possible involvement in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170, which had left Henry alienated throughout Christendom.

Following a little initial hostility on Fidelma's part towards Eadulf, the murderer was uncovered, and after the Synod concluded Fidelma and Eadulf journeyed together to Rome, where they were asked to investigate the murder of Archbishop-designate Wighard ( see Shroud for the Archbishop ).

In 1177, as part of his penance for his part in the murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry II refounded Harold's church as a priory of Augustinian Canons Regular of sixteen canons and a prior.

Concerned lest the English should seek to have the Archbishop spared, the leaders of the King's party had Hamilton speedily tried and convicted of art and part in the murder of the Regent Moray and King Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

* In 1997, the Network accused Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, Archbishop of San Salvador, of being involved in several crimes, including the murder of the former archbishop.

As Archbishop in 2007 he called on " the youth of Italy's murder capital to unsheathe courage and hand over their knives in church, anonymously and without penalty ".

Those who had been involved in the Shah Khalil Allah's murder were punished and the Persian king Fath Ali Shah increased Hasan Ali Shah's land holdings in the Mahallat region and gave him one of his daughters, Sarv-i Jahan Khanum, in marriage.

In a sweet, dulcet Harvard whisper he implored ' Casey ' to murder the umpire, and gave this cry of mass animal rage all the emphasis of a caterpillar wearing rubbers crawling on a velvet carpet.

Furthermore, the murder of Charles I, Count of Flanders in 1127 gave Louis the opportunity to install William as the new Count of Flanders, thus setting him up to be a strong rival of Matilda.

The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother ( she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch ); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died.

Three witnesses gave key evidence that swayed Justice Spicer to hold that there was not enough evidence to indict the Earps and Doc Holliday for murder.

Raphael Holinshed, in his Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 ) reports that Richard, " what with purging and declaring his innocence concerning the murder of his nephews towards the world, and what with cost to obtain the love and favour of the communaltie ( which outwardlie glosed, and openly dissembled with him ) ... gave prodigally so many and so great rewards, that now both he lacked, and scarce with honesty how to borrow.

Heracles gave his wife, Megara, age thirty three, to Iolaus, then only sixteen years old – ostensibly because the sight of her reminded him of his murder of their three children.

This gave students free rein in urban environments to break secular laws with impunity, a fact which produced many abuses: theft, rape and murder were not uncommon among students who did not face serious consequences.

This in turn gave rise to speculation whether he had inadvertently or deliberately killed himself in a drunken fit of delerium tremens, or whether his own wife and future queen Ranavalona I may have arranged or even committed the murder of the king herself.

In January 2009, during the Gaza War, Kaufman gave a speech to the House of Commons where he stated: " The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, cracked down on the liberal press, and seriously restricted academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation.

This reaction soon seemed justified: it was the publication in England of Pius's exhortation that gave the impetus to the Ridolfi plot, in which the Duke of Norfolk was to kidnap or murder Queen Elizabeth, install Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne and then become de facto king by marrying her.

Therefore Mustafa IV gave orders to murder him and his brother Prince Mahmud.

Commodus's misrule led to his murder on 31 December 192, following which a brief period of instability quickly gave way to Septimius Severus, who established the Severan dynasty which, except for an interruption in 217-218, held the purple until 235.

The variety of victims and murder methods gave police the impression that more than one killer was at large: the public turned in over 900, 000 different names to the police as potential suspects.

The murder of Count Charles the Good of Flanders on 2 March 1127 gave King Louis an even better chance to further William ’ s fortunes.

FRELIMO supporters retaliated with bloody riots in the black shantytowns surrounding the city and, during several days, thousands of people, mostly Portuguese, were barbarously slaughtered, along with blacks who had allegedly remained loyal to their employers. The second episode of violence happened a few weeks later, on 21 October 1974, when a quarrel between Portuguese commandos and FRELIMO guerrillas in downtown Lourenço Marques gave rise to another wave of bloody riots in the black shantytown areas, with the murder of dozens of whites.

In August 2011 Mijailović gave an interview in the Swedish newspaper Expressen, his first such interview since his arrest, in which he provided new details about the murder of Lindh.

The " deluge " and religious differences between the primarily Protestant Swedes and the primarily Catholic Poles, resulting in cases of maltreatment and murder of Catholic clergy and monks as well as cases of looting of Catholic churches and monasteries, gave rise to some partisan movements in the Swedish-occupied territory.

Henry asked for permission from his uncle Richard, who gave it promptly: however, since Richard was suspected of Conrad's murder, this raises further questions about the whole episode.

In jail on a pending 1933 murder charge, Reles gave in to pleas from his wife and agreed to help prosecute Capone and the rest of the organization.

More recently it housed, in 1966, Moors murderess Myra Hindley ; in 1967, beautiful Welsh temptress Kim Newell who was involved in the Red Mini Murder and Nazi synagogue arsonist Françoise Dior, in 1993, Sheila Bowler, the music teacher wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her elderly aunt, was detained there before being transferred to Bullwood Hall and in 2002, Maxine Carr who gave a false alibi for Soham murderer Ian Huntley.

He attempted to wipe out all rival claimants to the throne ; he gave orders to kill Constantine II's nephews, Bemon and Leo, but before the murder could be carried out they escaped to Cyprus.

In 1923, after one of the killers gave the tale of the murder to a local newspaper, Höss was arrested and tried as the ring leader.