• Saint Thomas Becket window in Chartres Cathedral is a 1215–1225 stained-glass window in Chartres Cathedral, located behind a grille in the Confessors'...
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    Good Samaritan Window, Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres Saint Thomas Becket window in Chartres Cathedral French Gothic stained glass windows High Gothic...
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    Chartres Saint Thomas Becket window in Chartres Cathedral French Gothic stained glass windows Colette & Jean-Paul Deremble (2015). "Les vitraux de Chartres" (PDF)...
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    The Saint Thomas Becket window in Sens Cathedral is an early 13th century stained glass window in Sens Cathedral. Noted as a monument historique, it is...
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    Detail of Life of Charlemagne, Bay 7 of Chartres Cathedral (1225) Saint Barnabas, detail of window of Lincoln Cathedral (1201–1235) Detail of baptism scene...
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  • Thomas Becket window, Saint-Ouen Abbey, Rouen, with architectural settings Grisaille windows at Troyes Cathedral 14th century glass in Sens Cathedral...
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    from the Getty Chartres Cathedral; many good images of glass and portal Various medieval works, including the original Saint Denis window, with many photos...
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    Early Gothic architecture (category Gothic architecture in France)
    from the Thomas Becket window at Canterbury Cathedral (late 12th – early 13th c.) Stained glass had existed for centuries, and was used in Romanesque...
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    in the window depicting the life of Saint Thomas Becket (F-108 left in the Choir). Some of the windows mix glass from different periods; the window of...
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    personal effects belonging to Becket, including his church vestments, are on display in the treasury of Sens Cathedral. A major window on the north side of the...
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    in France Detail of a 13th-century window from Chartres Cathedral Charlemagne from a Romanesque window in Strasbourg Cathedral The Crucifixion window...
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    transept displays a 13th-century stained-glass window showing scenes from the lives of the saints Thomas Becket, George and Blaise. The floor of the north...
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    sophistication with the 12th century windows of Chartres Cathedral and in the "Dean's Eye" rose window at Lincoln Cathedral. At the beginning of the 13th century...
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    Eure-et-Loir (category 1790 establishments in France)
    tourist attraction is the cathedral of Chartres, with its magnificent stained-glass windows. Church: Saint-Pierre of Dreux, Saint-Denis (Toury) Chapelle...
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    rose window of Creation in the north transept. Chartres Cathedral : "Labours of the Months" window in south ambulatory Calkins, Robert G. Illuminated...
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    those of St. Swithun. All these saints brought pilgrims to their churches, but among them the most renowned was Thomas Becket, the late Archbishop of Canterbury...
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  • Theobald of Bec (category Burials at Canterbury Cathedral)
    died in 1161, following which unsuccessful efforts were made to have him canonised as a saint. Theobald was the patron of his successor Thomas Becket, and...
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    Vézelay Abbey (category 12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in France)
    months at the Abbey in 1190 before leaving for the Third Crusade. Thomas Becket, in exile, chose Vézelay for his Whitsunday sermon in 1166, announcing the...
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    Eleanor of Aquitaine (category Women in war in West Asia)
    their revulsion at the murder of Thomas Becket (1170). Although Richard of Devizes admired Eleanor's perseverance in supporting her son Richard, all of...
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    in 1139 by the Plantagenet army in just three days. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, passed through Saint-Lô and a church, of which there...
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    St Botolph's Priory (category English Heritage sites in Essex)
    recommendation to take to the abbot of Mont-Saint-Éloi. Norman and a companion took this letter to the France, first to Chartres and then to Beauvais, where they...
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    While the famous Saint Peter's Basilica is located in Vatican City, above the traditional site of Saint Peter's tomb, the papal cathedral for the Diocese...
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    Limoges (category 1st-century BC establishments in Roman Gaul)
    largest in ancient Gaul. [citation needed] The Gothic Limoges Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Limoges), begun in 1273 and only finished in 1888....
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    St Magnus the Martyr (category Church of England church buildings in the City of London)
    Southwark Cathedral meeting in the middle of London Bridge. On Sunday 3 July 2011, in anticipation of the feast of the translation of St Thomas Becket (7 July)...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont (category Roman Catholic dioceses in France)
    and again from 25 May to 25 June 1165; and, in 1166, Thomas Becket. It was also at Clermont that, in 1262, in presence of St. Louis, the marriage of Philip...
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  • and makes an inquiry into land tenure. July 10 – A fire devastates Chartres Cathedral. Only the crypt, the towers, and the new facade survives. Funds are...
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    Kilwinning Abbey (category Christian monasteries established in the 12th century)
    monastic community, named after Tiron in the diocese of Chartres. The abbey was dedicated to Saint Winning and the Virgin Mary, and founded sometime between...
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