Who was responsible for Thomas Becket's death in 1170 and why?
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He thought he would be safe inside the Church. On 29th December 1170, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was murdered in cold blood by four knights in Canterbury Cathedral. King Henry II, the four knights, and Thomas Becket himself all had a hand in the gruesome deed.
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Beckett and the king (Henry II) were increasingly in conflict over the power of secular courts over the clergy as part of Henry's attempts to loosen the power of Rome over England via the Church, this eventually led to Beckett being exiled to Normandy but then re-integrated with the agreement between Rome and Henry reached in the Constitutions of Clarendon, which Beckett (archbishop of Canterbury) refused to sign
Things came to a head when he was next in line to the Throne, Beckett excommunicated the three bishops who performed the ordination.
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