What of blessed Thomas?
Let Thomas answer on the Last Day.

I deny him none of his properties; he was open-handed, open-minded, as bold as a lion.

But his vices ate him up.

Peace be with the man; he was a mighty king.

He left a wife in prison, two sons in arms against him, and many bastards.' As soon as he was dead his people came about like flies and despoiled the Castle of Chinon, the bed where he lay (smiling grimly, as if death had made him a cynic), his very body of the rings on its fingers, the gold circlet, the Christ round his neck.