Editing Thomas Becket (section)

==Legacy==
* In 1170 King [[Alfonso VIII]] of Castille married [[Eleanor of England|Eleanor Plantagenet]], second daughter of Henry II and Eleanor Queen of England and Duchess of Aquitaine. She honoured Becket with a wall painting of his martyrdom that survives in the church of [[San Nicolás de Soria]] in Spain.<ref>[http://www.romanicodigital.com/documentos_web/pdf/PDF%C2%B4S_VISOR%20On-Line%20Abierto/SORIA/SORIA.swf Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León: Soria III.] Fundación Santa María la Real&nbsp;– Centro de Estudios del Románico, pp. 961, 1009–1017.</ref>
* Becket's assassination made an impact in Spain: within five years of his death [[Salamanca]] had a church named after him, Iglesia de Santo Tomás Cantuariense.
* Monumental frescoes with the martyrdom of Thomas Becket were depicted in the romanesque church of Santa Maria in [[Terrassa]].
* [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' features a company of [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrims]] travelling from [[Southwark]] to Becket's shrine in Canterbury Cathedral.
* The story of Becket's life became a popular theme for medieval [[Nottingham Alabaster]] carvers. One set of Becket panels is shown in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70796 |title=St Thomas Becket landing at Sandwich (Relief) |website=Victoria & Albert Museum |language=en |access-date=26 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70791 |title=St Thomas Becket meeting the Pope (Panel) |website=Victoria & Albert Museum |language=en |access-date=26 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69836 |title=Consecration of St Thomas Becket as archbishop (Panel) |website=Victoria & Albert Museum |language=en |access-date=26 December 2018}}</ref>
* The arms of the city of [[Canterbury]], officially registered in 1619 but dating back to at least 1380, is based on the [[attributed arms]] of Thomas Becket: ''Argent, three Cornish choughs proper'', with the addition of a chief ''[[gules]]'' charged with ''a lion passant guardant [[Or (heraldry)|or]]'' from the [[Royal Arms of England]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Canterbury (England)&nbsp;– Coat of arms|url=http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php/Canterbury_(England)|publisher=Heraldry of the World|access-date=31 January 2017}}</ref>
* In 1884, England's poet laureate [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] wrote ''[[Becket (Tennyson play)|Becket]]'', a play about Thomas Becket and Henry II that [[Henry Irving]] produced after Tennyson's death and played in the title role.<ref>{{Cite DNB12 |wstitle=Irving, Henry |first=Harold Hannyngton |last=Child}}</ref>
* Modern works based on the Becket story include: [[T. S. Eliot]]'s play ''[[Murder in the Cathedral]]'', adapted as the opera {{lang|it|[[Assassinio nella cattedrale]]}} by [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]]; [[Jean Anouilh]]'s play ''[[Becket]]'', where Becket is not a Norman but a Saxon, adapted for the screen in 1964, and starring [[Peter O'Toole]] and [[Richard Burton]]; and Paul Webb's play ''[[Four Nights in Knaresborough]]'', which Webb adapted for the screen, selling the rights to [[The Weinstein Company|Harvey and Bob Weinstein]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083473.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610212236/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1083473.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 June 2010 |title=Hollywood shines a light on geezers who killed à Becket |last=Malvern |first=Jack |date=10 June 2006 |work=[[The Times]] |access-date=21 June 2010 |location=London}}</ref> The power struggle between Church and King is a theme of [[Ken Follett]]'s novel ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'', where a late scene features the murder of Becket. An oratorio by [[David Reeves (composer)|David Reeves]], ''Becket – The Kiss of Peace'', was premièred in 2000 at Canterbury Cathedral, where the event had occurred, as a part of the [[Canterbury Festival]], and a fundraiser for the [[The Prince's Trust|Prince's Trust]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hughes |first1=Peter |title=Music festivals: We pick 10 of the best |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/722471/Music-festivals-We-pick-10-of-the-best.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516004148/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/722471/Music-festivals-We-pick-10-of-the-best.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 May 2008 |website=Telegraph |access-date=3 July 2018 |date=26 May 2000}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author1=Reeves, David |author2=Bowman, James |author3=Wilson-Johnson, David |author4=Neary, Martin |author5=Slane, Phillip |author6=Novis, Constance |author7=Brink, Harvey |author8=Keith, Gillian |author9=Willocks, David |author10=English Chamber Choir |author11=English Festival Orchestra |title=Becket: The kiss of peace=Le baiser de la paix=Der Kuss der Friedens |date=1999 |publisher=English Gramophone/DRM Control Point; Australia: manufactured in Australia under license |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/17218963 |access-date=3 July 2018}}</ref>
* The [[Becket Fund for Religious Liberty]], a non-profit, non-partisan legal and educational institute in the United States fostering free expression for religious traditions took its inspiration from Thomas Becket.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.becketfund.org |title=Becket Fund |publisher=Becket Fund |access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref>
* In a 2006 poll by ''[[BBC History]]'' magazine for "worst Briton" of the previous millennium, Becket came second behind [[Jack the Ripper]].<ref name="bbcworst">{{Cite news|last=Coughlan |first=Sean |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4663032.stm |title=UK &#124; Saint or sinner? |work=BBC News |date=31 January 2006 |access-date=17 January 2010}}</ref> The poll was dismissed as "daft" in ''[[The Guardian]]'', and the result disputed by Anglicans and Catholics.<ref name="bbcworst"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Weaver |first=Matthew |date=31 January 2006 |title=Asking silly questions |work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London |url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/01/31/asking_silly_questions.html |agency=News Blog |access-date=2 May 2008}}</ref> Historians had nominated one person per century, and for the 12th century [[John Hudson (historian)|John Hudson]] chose Becket for being "greedy", "hypocritical", "founder of gesture politics" and "master of the [[soundbite]]".<ref name="bbcworst"/><ref>{{cite web|first=Sean|last=Coughlan|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4561624.stm |title=UK &#124; 'Worst' historical Britons list |publisher=BBC News |date=27 December 2005 |accessdate=21 November 2022}}</ref> The magazine editor suggested most other nominees were too obscure for voters, as well as saying, "In an era when thumbscrews, racks and burning alive could be passed off as robust law and order—being guilty of 'gesture politics' might seem something of a minor charge."<ref name="bbcworst"/>
* The many UK churches dedicated to Thomas Becket include [[Portsmouth Cathedral|Cathedral Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Portsmouth]], [[St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Canterbury]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.welcometoportsmouth.co.uk/portsmouth%20cathedral.html |title=Portsmouth Cathedral, St Thomas' Cathedral, Old Portsmouth |access-date=3 December 2018}}</ref> [[Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Monmouth]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.welcometomonmouth.co.uk/Things-to-do/Churches/St-Thomas-Church-Monmouth.html |title=Welcome to Monmouth, St Thomas Church Monmouth |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> [[St Thomas à Becket Church, Pensford]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=South West England |url=http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/heritage-at-risk-register-south-west-region/harsouthwestacc.pdf/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/heritage-at-risk-register-south-west-region/harsouthwestacc.pdf/ |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |work=Heritage at Risk |publisher=English Heritage |page=243}}</ref> [[St Thomas à Becket Church, Widcombe]],<ref>{{NHLE |num=1394116 |desc=Church of St Thomas a Becket |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> [[Church of St Thomas à Becket, Capel]],<ref name=cct_stb>{{Cite web |url=http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-ThomasBecket-Capel-Kent/ |title=Church of St Thomas a Becket, Capel, Kent |access-date=13 December 2011 |publisher=[[Churches Conservation Trust]]}}</ref> [[St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol|St Thomas the Martyr]], Bristol,<ref name="cct_stm">{{Cite web |title=Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol |url=http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Church-of-St-Thomas-the-Martyr-Bristol-Bristol/ |publisher=[[Churches Conservation Trust]] |access-date=13 December 2011}}</ref> and [[St Thomas the Martyr's Church, Oxford]].<ref name="near">{{Cite web |title=St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford |work=A Church Near You |url=http://www.acny.org.uk/venue.php?V=214 |access-date=13 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927010426/http://www.acny.org.uk/venue.php?V=214 |archive-date=27 September 2007}}</ref> Those in France include Église Saint-Thomas de Cantorbéry at [[Mont-Saint-Aignan]], Upper-Normandy,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/france/patrimoine_architectural/normandie/roumois/montstaignan/0308montstaignan/index.htm |title=Saint-Thomas de Cantorbéry |publisher=Mondes-normands.caen.fr |access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref> Église Saint-Thomas-Becket at [[Gravelines]] (Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Église Saint-Thomas Becket at [[Avrieux]] (Rhône-Alpes), and Église Saint-Thomas Becket at [[Bénodet]] (Brittany),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.linternaute.com/sortir/magazine/photo/benodet-un-port-de-charme-en-pays-bigouden/vestiges-du-xiiieme-siecle.shtml |title=Saint-Thomas Becket (Bénodet) |publisher=Linternaute.com |date=18 March 2008 |access-date=18 June 2012}}</ref>
* Among his obligations in contrition to Henry, William de Tracy much enlarged and re-dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury the parish church in [[Lapford]], Devon, in his manor of [[Bradninch]]. The martyrdom day is still marked by a Lapford Revel.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
* British schools named after Thomas Becket include [[Becket Keys Church of England School]] and [[St Thomas of Canterbury Church of England Aided Primary School]].
* British hospitals named after Thomas Becket include [[St Thomas' Hospital]].
* Part of the Hungarian city of [[Esztergom]] is named [[Szenttamás (Esztergom)|Szenttamás]] ("Saint Thomas"), on a hill called "Szent Tamás" dedicated to Thomas Becket – a classmate of [[Lucas, Archbishop of Esztergom]] in Paris.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Györffy |first=György |year=1970 |title=Becket Tamás és Magyarország [Thomas Becket and Hungary] |journal=Filológiai Közlöny |volume=16 |issue=1–2 |pages=153–158 |issn=0015-1785}}</ref>
* In the treasury of [[Fermo Cathedral]] is the [[Fermo chasuble of St. Thomas Becket|Fermo chasuble of Thomas Becket]], on display at Museo Diocesano
* Thomas Becket is honoured in the [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|Church of England]] and in the [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church]] on 29 December.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Calendar |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=The Church of England |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEq7DwAAQBAJ |title=Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 |date=2019-12-17 |publisher=Church Publishing, Inc. |isbn=978-1-64065-235-4 |language=en}}</ref>

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File:SouthNewington StPeterAdVincula StThomasBeckettMartyrdom.JPG|Wall painting of Thomas Becket's martyrdom painted in the 1330s in the parish church of [[St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington#Wall paintings|St Peter ad Vincula, South Newington]], Oxfordshire
File:Thomas Becket at Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania).jpg|[[Thomas Becket]] in clerestory of [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)]]
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