Theobald of Bec succeeds at Canterbury
1140
The Norman abbot of Le Bec succeeded William of Corbeil as Archbishop of Canterbury, bringing a school of canon law and a staff of brilliant young clerks - including the young Thomas Becket - to England. His household would train a generation of English administrators. Theobald's quiet patronage of legal and administrative talent made Canterbury the nursery of the Angevin bureaucratic state that Henry II would build.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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