Henry II & Thomas Becket

>>2923135
Neither. Fuck them both.

Henry II wanted to establish the makings of a secular government with his judicial reforms, which infringed on the Catholic Church's domains. This all gets traced back to Henry II's great-grandfather William the Bastard promising the Pope that he would make England a papal domain in exchange for his support. After the Conquest when the new Pope called William out on this, no shit the Norman bastard reneged on the deal as well as his anti-clerical spawn William Rufus.

Becket wasn't the Saxon hero of legend. He was a Norman that got uppity with his power and didn't give a rat's ass about the local peasantry.

If only Henry IV of the HRE had knights as loyal

>>2923135
>Who was in the right?
certainly not the turbulent priest

>>2923135
Both because it's some uppity knights that kill, one of whom was my direct ancestor (and people wonder why I have autism)

>>2924655
God cursed you anon