The murder of Thomas Becket
Thomas Becket was a man who rose quickly through the ranks of the Catholic church but whose demise was even swifter, not to mention more bloody and brutal.
Born in London in around 1120, when his property-owning father hit financial difficulties, the young Becket was forced to take work as a clerk, first for a relative and then for Theobald of Bec, the Archbishop of Canterbury. So impressed by Becket was Theobald that, when the role of Lord Chancellor became vacant, he recommended his
