The Legend of Becket's Mother as the Daughter of a Saracen Emir

Baptism of Becket's Mother
Marriage of Gilbert Becket and Becket's Mother
Birth of Thomas Becket

Emir is the Islamic equivalent of a Prince or Grand Duke.
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Giles reprinted in his second volume the legend of Thomas Becket's ‘Saracen’ mother. This legend occurs, in almost exactly the same words, in some late manuscripts of the life by Grim (from one of which it is printed in Robertson's Materials, vol. ii.), in the chronicle known as John Bromton's (Twysden's Decem Scriptores, cols. 1052–5), and in British Library Harleian MS. 978, of which Mr. C. L. Kingsford has given a full account in the introduction to his edition of the Song of Lewes (Clarendon Press Ser. 1890).'

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Henry Hart Milman (1860). Life of Thomas à Becket. Sheldon & company. pp. 9–.

Sketches and Anecdotes Illustrative of Female Character. Russell, Odiorne & Company. 1833. pp. 189–.

(Patrologia Latina Tomus 190 Col 0346B) CAPITULUM II. DE ORTU MIRABILI BEATI THOMAE.

Edward Grim

CAPITULUM II. DE ORTU MIRABILI BEATI THOMAE.

http://www.bartleby.com/210/12/291.html

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Michael Staunton (2001). The Lives of Thomas Becket. Manchester University Press. pp. 40–. ISBN 978-0-7190-5455-6.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thomas_%C3%A0_Becket_(DNB00)

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Thomas Becket (st., abp. of Canterbury.) (1845). Vita s. Thomæ Cantuariensis archiepiscopi et martyris, ab auctoribus contemporaneis, ed. ab I.A. Giles. pp. 183–.

Simon (Dunelmensis); Roger Twysden (1652). Historiae Anglicanae scriptores decem. Johannis Bromton 1052-5: Bee

http://d.lib.rochester.edu/crusades/text/gilbert-beckett-and-the-fair-saracen

http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca1/17/carminabritannia00thomuoft/carminabritannia00thomuoft.pdf p. 29

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Helen Deeming; Elizabeth Eva Leach (28 May 2015). Manuscripts and Medieval Song. BL Harley 978: Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–. ISBN 978-1-107-06263-4.

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_978

The Song of Lewes by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

https://archive.org/stream/songlewes00richgoog#page/n11/mode/1up


Mills, R; (2012) Translation, Conversion and Becket's 'Heathen' Mother. In: Blurton, H and Wogan-Browne, J, (eds.)Rethinking the South English Legendaries. (pp. 381-402). Manchester University Press: Manchester.


Thomas Warton (1774). The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. Printed for, and sold by J. Dodsley. pp. 17–.

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 Sir Lewis Morris's Gilbert Beckett and the Fair Saracen

Gilbert Beckett And The Fair Saracen Poem by Sir Lewis Morris - Poem Hunter