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The conflict ended in the murder of Thomas Becket in his own cathedral by the King's servants. Becket was
canonized (St. Thomas); his shrine became a place of pilgrimage for the whole of Europe, for the cures effected
there, until it was destroyed by Henry VIII in 1538. So the King of the House of Plantagenet was the first to
have a conflict with the Church and he physically destroyed the opposition.
His wife Eleanor took a lively interest in politics. Somewhat too lively at times, for she abetted (helped and
supported) her song when they rebelled against their father, she was, as a result, imprisoned.
Henry II's reign was one of constitutional progress and territorial expansion.
Richard I the Lion-Heart (1189-1199).
King Richard may have had the heart of a lion but England saw all too little of him. He was called a
romantic sportsman and spent most of his life in Crusades in the Holy Land.