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Thomas Beckett was born in 1118 to Norman parents.
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Thomas Beckett was educated at Merton priory and at a city grammar school.
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Becket was granted access intop the household of Theobald
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Thomas Becket was appointed Arche-Deacon of Canterbury
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Becket was pronounced the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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King Henry II was named Becket's Chancellor.
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Becket wanted something new withthe government so he began to transform it, and he became the formulator and executor of government policy.
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Henry obtained the appointment of Becket to the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury.
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Thomas Becket decides that he would rather lay his royalties with God, instead of the King.
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King Henry wanted all misdemeanours to be tried and punished, and Becket did not agree.
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Becket believes the clergy should have no other king thanChrist Jesus and be subject to his law.
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Henry II demands his bishops should accept 16 constitiutions which set out the relationship between the Church and the Crown of England.
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King Henry decides he will now break his former friend; he accuses Becket of financial dishonesty.
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Becket storms out of the council and secretly takes a circuitous route and leaves the city.
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Becket was found guilty
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King Henry refused to give Beckett the kiss of peace.
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Becket is prompted to return after Henry is crowned by the archbishop of York.
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Henry and Thomas meet in Fretval.
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Thomas was met with hostility by a gang of the kings men when returning to Canterbury.
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Thomas accepted death at the angry peoples hands inside the Cathedral this night.