biography
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| lived:
| (c.1090–1161)
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| biography:
| Archbishop of Canterbury, born near Bec, NW France. A monk at Bec, he became abbot there in 1137, and the following year was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. He crowned King Stephen, but after the king's death he refused to regard Stephen's son as his successor, and eventually crowned Henry II (1154). He advanced his archdeacon, Thomas Becket, to the chancellorship in 1155, introduced the study of civil law into England, and resisted all attempts by the monasteries to throw off episcopal jurisdiction. |
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