The death of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, December 29, 1170. Thomas Becket, aka Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket, 1119/1120 – 1170. English nobleman, Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. After a print by James Stow from a painting by John Opie originally featured in Robert Bowyer's Historic Gallery, published between 1793 and 1806.

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