The quarrel between St. Thomas Becket (the archbishop of Canterbury) and King Henry II of England was over the rights and privileges of the Roman Catholic Church, including clerical immunity from lay tribunals and the kingās demands outlined in the Constitutions of Clarendon (16 articles issued in January 1164 by Henry that defined churchāstate relations in England).
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