File:Becket and the kings part - Becket Leaves (c.1220-1240), f. 2v - BL Loan MS 88.jpg

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Matthew Paris  (1200–1259)  wikidata:Q369366 s:en:Author:Matthew Paris q:pl:Mateusz Paryżanin
 
Matthew Paris
Alternative names
Matthæus Parisiensis
Description British manuscript illuminator and cartographer
Date of birth/death circa 1200
date QS:P,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
between May 1259 and June 1259
date QS:P,+1259-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1319,+1259-05-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1259-06-00T00:00:00Z/10
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Location of birth/death England St Albans
Work period 1217 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q369366
but this is debated
Description
English: Becket leaves Louis VII and Henry II in January 1169
Date between circa 1220 and circa 1240
date QS:P571,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1220-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1240-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Sir Paul Getty collection, Wormsley Park; on long-term loan to the
institution QS:P195,Q23308
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Loan MS 88, f. 2v
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Reges Ludovicus et Henricus et sui complices. Recedit beatus Thomas multis lacessitus injuriis, et derisus a magnatibus. Soli pauperes benedictionem ejus petunt.
[Kings Louis and Henry and their accomplices. Blessed Thomas retreats having suffered many slights, mocked by the magnates. Only the poor ask for his blessing.]
Notes See Angelfire website for accompanying verses and an English translation
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The Becket Leaves (La vie de Seint Thomas de Cantorbéry, a French-verse history of the life of Thomas Becket with large illuminations.)

This file from C.J.Birkett's Becket Leaves website on Angelfire: webpage, file
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