Related to Henry the Second:Thomas Becket Henry II1 1133-1189. King of England (1154-1189). The son of Princess Matilda, he founded the Plantagenet royal line and appointed Thomas à Becket as archbishop of Canterbury. His quarrels with Becket concerning the authority of the Crown over the ...
Henry II was the son of Queen Matilda and he was the king of England. He formed a treaty with Stephen to become his heir, and got his crown after Stephen was dead in 1154. ThomasBecket was Henry II best friend and the chancellor of England. After he becamethe Archbishop of Canterbury,...
Thomas Becket, Henry II, Daughters and Sons: A Family AffairCecily Hennessy
Henry's carousing chum and chief administrator was a cleric by the name of Thomas Becket (sometimes wrongly called Thomas a Becket). When the See of Canterbury fell empty in 1162 Henry convinced a very reluctant Becket to become the new Archbishop. Henry II and Thomas a Becket Henry, ...
The long collection of miracles of St Thomas Becket written by William, a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, between 1172 and c.1179 is, like many other examples of the genre, a rich source for attitudes towards sanctity, relics, and pilgrimage. A far more unusual feature of William's ...
Henry The 8th essaysHenry VIII was born on June 28th 1491, in Greenwich Palace, London. He was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. Henry VIII came to the throne on the June 24th 1509, after his father's death. Almost 18 at the time, Henry
Thomas was now thirty-eight; Theobald, Nigel, and Leicester were all old men, and the young king of twenty-two must have seemed a mere boy to his new counsellors. The Empress had been left in Normandy to avoid the revival of old quarrels. Hated in England for her proud contempt of th...
the derived SI unit of electric inductance; the inductance of a closed circuit in which an emf of 1 volt is produced when the current varies uniformly at the rate of 1 ampere per second. Henry 1. Joseph. 1797--1878, US physicist. He discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction ...
Young Henry’s childhood is interesting, though there is not a great deal of detail known. It is worth noting that in 1162 he was placed in the household of Thomas Becket, who would later become Archbishop of Canterbury. This was a sign of high favour to Becket, and Young Henry would ...
It was not always easy being a princess in the fifteenth century – Cecily of York, the second surviving daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, was born on 20 March 1469. It wasn’t a good year to be born. The week before her birth, a papal dispensation was issued for Cecily’...