tried to make peace with King Henry by sending him three different personal letters. King Henry did not want to make peace with Becket and gave Beckets deliveryman a bad reply. Thomas Becket was very disturbed and angry that the letters did not help to resolve this ongoing feud with his king. In 1170, with King Henrys permission his household of barons and such began planning what they were going to do with the archbishop Thomas Becket. Finally on December 29 1170 the plan of Henry II, his barons, and his knights unfolded in one of Henrys castles in Canterbury. The knights confronted Becket and he showed them no signs of mercy or knelling to them in the kings name. The men chased him some more around the castle until Becket stopped in a little room next to the cathedral. This is where Thomas Becket was first stabbed by one of Henrys knights, William Tracy.Following Tracy was Richard Brito who literally cut the top of Beckets head off with his sword. When the whole truth of this terrible crime got to Alexander III he was outraged with King Henry and was not ready to help him at all. Alexander gave the permission to punish all that were involved with this terrible murder Thomas Becket. So Alexander made Henry II pay for his part in the crime. First he made Henry give two hundred of this men for a year to defend Palestine, Henry also had to take the simble of the church the cross for three and a half years. Next Henry was ordered to restore all the lands, churches, and other such religious artifacts back to Canterbury as they were before Beckets exile. The next thing Henry was ordered to do was repay all of Beckets close followers. The fourth punishment he received was to give the church back their control he took from them in honor of Thomas Becket. The final punishment that King Henry II received from Alexander III was that he must updated and renovate the church for all the years of ignoring it because of the man who ran ...
