Thomas Becket's, Archbishop of Canterbury, Coat of Arms

Thomas Becket's Coat of Arms

Argent three Cornish [Red-Billed] Choughs (Beckits) proper two and one

In heraldry, choughs are known as "beckits". Three Red-billed Choughs are depicted on the coat of arms of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the city of Canterbury also has choughs on its coat of arms, because of its connection to the saint.

References

John R. W. Stott; Kregel Publications (June 2004). People My Teachers: Around the World in Eighty Years. Kregel Publications. pp. 138–. ISBN 978-0-8254-3720-5.

Canterbury ready to welcome back friend of Becket - 14th Apr 2001 The Daily Telegraph

The Heraldry Society

Heraldry and the Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket

By Cecil R Humphery-Smith, OBE, FSA, FHS 

Coat of Arms No. 85, January 1971.

The Herald and Genealogist. 1870. pp. 51–.