Perpetrator in Murder in the Cathedral
Knight of the royal household, generally named as the leader of the four and the first to strike. Dates uncertain; often said to have died c. 1173.
1170–1174 · Canterbury Cathedral, Kent · Never caught
Four of Henry II's knights cut down the Archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral in 1170. Within three years he was a saint and the king did penance. Read the case.