Thomas Becket's Influence

Thomas Becket was born to a great London merchant around 1120. He got enough education and was later to become the Theobald’s agent, an archbishop of Canterbury who later gave him missions work to Rome, Italy. He studied trivium and quadrivium at the Merton Priory, grammar school and the St. Paul’s cathedral schools.
Primacy
Becket was highly talented and was recommended by Henry II by making him the 12th century Chancellor with the two becoming great friends. Becket later become the archbishop of Canterbury rising from the death of Theobald in the year 1161. In addition, Thomas Becket was a well transformed changing from pleasure loving to a simple dressed archbishop. After becoming archbishop of Canterbury in 1154, he showed competence and enforced additional sources of the king’s riches. The king and archbishop were great friends but later a strain occurred putting it clear that Thomas Becket was in charge of the church for the disagreements he had with the king (Butler 78). The rift continued with the Becket resigning his chancellorship and opted to lengthen the archbishopric’s rights. The conflicts also included the jurisdiction of the courts over the clergy from England. This caused the increase of antipathy between Thomas Becket and the king while the latter attempted to influence other bishops to be against Becket. The king
The king was angered and uttered words which were said to have the intention of killing Becket. On the time of his assassination, knights came with weapons which they kept under a tree outside under cloaks before entering the cathedral where they challenged Becket ot head to Winchester and give accounts of his excommunication to the opponents but he refused. The knights went outside and rushed back with their weapons and killed him. After Thomas Becket’s death, he was canonized by the pope and he was taken to the