#thomas beckett

[woman-with-no-name]

Tom Berenger | Sniper (1993)

[zhoudadudugongjin]

thinking about Them again (my first beloved historical middle-aged toxic yaoi couple henry II of england and his archbishop thomas beckett) because they were soooooo

[saintlanayru]

Happy 75th birthday, Tom Berenger!!

He's one of my favourite actors when it comes to playing hard ass military men and other similar characters. One thing I really love when he plays these characters is that he can act tough and powerful having everything under control but also put on a sympathetic face like he really feels deeply about the hardship they have to go through and how he wants the audience to feel the same

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The king just cried aloud: “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?!!”

Wyd?

Ask “hey sire, just to check, was that like a rhetorical thing or…?”

Already killed the priest. King's gonna be so jazzed! 😄

Voting ended onFeb 16, 2023

[inziladun]

Original tweet by Hand Missal History Project on twitter @HandMissals, Dec 29, 2022:

Here's one of my favorite manuscript images showing Henry's attempts to obliterate the memory of Thomas Beckett (Missal with the Mass for St Thomas blotted out with red ink. Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6688, ff. 28v–29.) (source tweet)

Original tweet by Lisa Fagin Davis on twitter @lisafdavis Dec 29, 2022

Let's take a minute to remember that Thomas Becket was not only murdered by agents of King Henry II but was later cancelled by royal decree. In this @HoughtonLi Book of Hours (MS Richardson 34), his name on Dec. 29 was scraped away but later restored. https://digitalcollections.library.harvard.edu/catalog/990098874310203941 (source tweet)

[designobjectory]

Reliquary of Thomas Becket. Copper and enamel, 13th century. Museo della Cattedrale di Anagni, Anagni, Italy

[henryfitzempress]

The Empress Matilda, Daughter of Henry I, to Thomas à Becket Archbishop of Canterbury. A.D. 1165.

'To Thomas archbishop of Canterbury, Matilda the empress. 

My lord pope sent to me, enjoining me, for the remission of my sins, to interfere to renew peace and concord between you and the king, my son, and to try to reconcile you to him. 

You, as you well know, have asked the same thing from me; wherefore, with the more goodwill, for the honour of God and the Holy Church, I have begun and carefully treated of that affair. 

But it seems a very hard thing to the king, as well as to his barons and council, seeing he so loved and honoured you, and appointed you lord of his whole kingdom and of all his lands, and raised you to the highest honours in the land, believing he might trust you rather than any other; and especially so, because he declares that you have, as far as you could, roused his whole kingdom against him; nor was it your fault that you did not disinherit him by main force.

Therefore I send you my faithful servant, Archdeacon Laurence, that by him I may know your will in these affairs, and what sort of disposition you entertain towards my son, and how you intend to conduct yourself, if it should happen that he fully grants my petition and prayer on your behalf. 

One thing I plainly tell you, that you cannot recover the king's favour, except by great humility and most evident moderation. However, what you intend to do in this matter signify to me by my messenger and your letters."

Source: “Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain.”

[persephones-fruit]

Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England