To: ConservativeMan55
With the recent anniversary of the Magna Carta this brings to mind King Johns father Richard the Lion Hearted, as he said of Beckett Archbishop of Canterbury, “Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
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06/18/2015 9:34:57 AM PDT by
Jolla
To: Jolla
29 posted on
06/18/2015 9:36:27 AM PDT by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
To: Jolla
I think you’re referring to King Henry II.
To: Jolla
Richard the Lionhearted was John’s elder brother. Their father was Henry II and it was he who found his former friend and Chancellor, whom he’d appointed to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury, to be a “troublesome monk”
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