Henry II of England Quotes?

Question

Does anyone have any quotes from Henry II of England?

Answer 1

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" or  "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?"  Henry II of Thomas Becket.  

Becket was assassinated at Canterbury Cathedral shortly thereafter.  The continuing pilgrimage to Canterbury and to the sight of the death of Saint Thomas Becket became the source of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Also see: A Lion in Winter, film about same.

Answer 2

Year 1165

“You shall first answer me, for the injustice you have done to John, my marshal, in your court.”

“If any person shall be found carrying letters or a man-date of our lord the pope, or of the archbishop of Canterbury, containing an interdict of Christian offices in England, let him be arrested and without delay let justice be done upon him, as a traitor to the king and the realm. Moreover, let no clerk, monk, or lay brother of any orders, be permitted to cross the sea, or to return to England, unless he has a letter from the justiciaries permitting him to cross over, or a letter from the king allowing his return. And if any such person shall be found, let him be arrested and detained. It is also forbidden that any person shall bring any mandate whatsoever of our lord the pope, or of the archbishop of Canterbury. And, if any such person shad be found, let him be arrested and detained. It is also universally forbidden that any per-son shall appeal to our lord the pope, or to the archbishop of Canterbury, and that, in future, any mandate of theirs shall be received in England; and it is ordered that no pleas whatsoever shall be held at their mandate. And if any per-son shall do anything against this prohibition, let him be arrested and detained. And further, if any bishop, priest, abbot, monk, clerk, or layman, shall observe any sentence of interdict, without delay let him be banished the king-dom, and all his kindred, but they are to take away none of their chattels with them, but let their chattels and possessions be seized into the king’s hand. Also, let all clerks, who have benefices in England, be admonished throughout every county, within three months after summons, to return to their benefices, as they wish to retain those benefices and return to England. and if they shall not return within the period before-mentioned, then let their chattels and possessions be seized into the king’s hand. also, let the bishops of London and Norwich be summoned to appear before the king’s justiciaries, to make redress for having, contrary to the statutes of the realm, laid an interdict on he lands of earl Hugh, and passed sentence against him. also, let Saint Peter’s pence be collected and kept.”

“Make haste and pronounce judgment upon this person, who, being my liege-man, refuses to take his trial in my court;”

Year 1172

In the first place, he made oath that he would not withdraw from Alexander, the Supreme Pontiff, and his Catholic successors, so long as they should repute him to be a Catholic king.

  

He also made oath that he would neither prevent appeals nor allow them to be prevented, but that they should be freely made in his kingdom to the Roman Pontiff in causes ecclesiastical; yet so, that if any parties should be suspected by him, they should give him security that they would not seek the injury of him or of his kingdom.

  

He also made oath that, for a period of three years from the Nativity of our Lord then next ensuing he would assume the cross, and would in the following summer go in person to Jerusalem, unless he should remain at home by permission of Alexander, the Supreme Pontiff, or of his Catholic successors: provided, that if in the meantime, by reason of urgent necessity, he should set out for Spain to war against the Saracens, then for so long a period as he should be engaged in that expedition he might defer setting out for Jerusalem.

  

Besides this, he made oath that in the meantime he would give to the Templars as much money as in the opinion of the brethren of the Temple would suffice for the maintenance of two hundred knights, for the defense of the land of Jerusalem, during a period of one year.

Besides this, he remitted his wrath and displeasure against all those, both clergy and laity, who were in exile for the cause of Saint Thomas, and allowed them freely and peacefully to return home.

  

He also made oath that the possessions of the church of Canterbury, if any had been taken away, he would restore in full, in the same state in which they were one year before the blessed Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, had departed from England.

  

He also made oath that he would utterly abolish the customs which had been introduced in his time to the prejudice of the churches of his kingdom.

All these articles he made oath that he would observe faithfully and without evil intent. He also made his son, king Henry, swear to observe these articles, those excepted which only related personally to himself. And, to the intent that the same might be retained in the memory of the Roman Church, the king, the father, caused his seal to be set to the writing in which the above-stated articles were contained, together with the seals of the above-named cardinals.  

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Answer 3

This priest is a friend of mine, my spiritual advisor. He baptized my children, performed my wedding. But I never listened to his sermons.  Will someone rid me of this turbulent priest?

Answer 4

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”