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1175 Great North Road comes through Grantham. Prosperity from wool trade
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1175 | Narrow aisles added to the nave (circa1175) | |||
1200 | Vicars with life-long tenancy established | |||
1200 | Rebuilding included expansion and a south aisle to accommodate guild chapels . | |||
1200 | Major developments through the period were funded by wealthy wool merchants who endowed the chantries and guild chapels | |||
1200 | start of long programme of renovation and re-building |
1154 | -1189 | Henry II - the first Plantagenet king | ||
1164 | Constitution of Clarendon curbing power of the church. Clerics to be subject to”normal” law. | |||
1168 | Oxford University founded | |||
1170 | Thomas a Becket murdered | |||
1189 | -1199 | Richard I (Coeur de Lion) | ||
1190 | Richard led the third Crusade | |||
1199 | -1216 | King John |
Henry II | Crowned | 1154 | Died | 1189 | 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, killed | Plantagenet |
Richard I | Crowned | 1189 | Died | 1199 | 1192 Richard captured while on crusade | Plantagenet |
John | Crowned | 1199 | Died | 1216 | 1215 Signing of Magna Carta | Plantagenet |