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Edward the Black Prince is buried in Canterbury Cathedral, the same place where the remains of Thomas Becket are housed. How did later Plantagenets reconcile the veneration of Becket with the fact that their ancestor Henry II was responsible, to at least some degree, for Becket's murder?

by /u/Dry_Discussion in /r/AskHistorians

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