Becket and the King had a very friendly relationship ... Becket was already canonized in 1173. Henry II was scourged at Becket’s tomb in 1174. As noted above, Becket’s fortunes changed ...
King Henry VIII had grand plans for his tomb at the beginning of his reign, hiring the artist Pietro Torrigiano to design and execute. Torrigiano was an unstable man who caused problems wherever ...
2019 [for Henry III's tomb] King Henry III and the Cosmati work at Westminster by D. Carpenter, in The Cloister and the World edited by J. Blair and B. Golding, 1996 On an examination of the tombs of ...