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Helena Juht.  Son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Empress Matilda  Married Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152  Crowned king in 1154  Inherited: the English kingdom,

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1 Helena Juht

2  Son of Geoffrey of Anjou and Empress Matilda  Married Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1152  Crowned king in 1154  Inherited: the English kingdom, Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, central and south-western France.  Immense energy, athletic, tough  Intelligent, pillar of justice, generous  Defeated by his sons and the king of France in 1189

3  Becket and Henry II were friends  Becket became the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162  Dispute over the role of the Church in England

4  Henry II: „Will not someone rid me of this turbulent priest?“  Murder of Thomas Becket in 1170  Canterbury became the centre of pilgirimage

5  Rebellious, popular  Spent hardly anytime in England  Crusades in the Holy Land  “Coeur de Lion” (Lionheart)  Educated, musical, wrote verse, could speak latin  Was killed in 1199

6  Unpopular  Had taken his nobles' money and had not protected their land in France  The next Archbishop?  Quarrel with the Pope in 1209  The Pope closed every church in England  Accepted the Pope's choice of archbishop.

7  The predecessor of the Constitution  Limited the king's power to tax the barons  The rights of the church and the city corporations  The right to a fair legal trial  The nobles – not vassals, a class  Marks a clear stage in the collapse of English feudalism

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9  https://hchroniclesblog.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-becket/ https://hchroniclesblog.wordpress.com/tag/thomas-becket/  http://www.amazon.com/Lithograph-England-Curtmantle-Rosalind- Thornycroft/dp/B009LQVMTC http://www.amazon.com/Lithograph-England-Curtmantle-Rosalind- Thornycroft/dp/B009LQVMTC  http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R- Hignuttwint/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0644.html http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R- Hignuttwint/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0644.html  http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_England  http://englishmanjon.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-thomas-becket.html http://englishmanjon.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-thomas-becket.html  http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_England http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_England  http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/ http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/  British history materials

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