Romantic legend that the mother of Thomas Becket was a Saracen princess who followed his father, a pilgrim or crusader, back from the Holy Land

Matilda was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark.

lmost as soon as More became a lawyer, he found himself contemplating another path in life

Bede’s reputation was based mainly on his scriptural commentaries, copies of which found their way to many of the monastic libraries of western Europe.

In 1970, The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonised.