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1170:

Becket returns to Canterbury

After establishing an uneasy reconciliation with Henry II, the Archbishop returned to his See, ending a six-year-long self-imposed exile. But doom awaited at the end of the year.

 

WHO WAS BORN

1083:

Anna Comnena

 

WHO DIED

1135:

Henry I of England

Henry, the youngest son of William the Conqueror, was an able king who strengthened the monarch's executive position and ruled Normandy, as well.

   

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