coronation of his son; and on the 27th of August the young king was crowned again, along with his wife, at Winchester.  Henry completed his submission at Avranches on the 27th of September.  He swore that he had not desired the death of Thomas, but to make satisfaction for the anger he had shown, he promised to take the cross, to give funds to the Knights Templars for the defence of Jerusalem, and to found three religious houses.  He renounced the Constitutions of Clarendon.  He swore allegiance to Alexander against the anti-Pope.  He promised that the possessions of Canterbury should be given back as they were a year before the flight of Thomas, and that his exiled friends should be restored to their possessions.  No king of England had ever suffered so deep a humiliation.  It seemed as thought he martyr were at last victorious.  A year after the murder, in December 1172, Canterbury cathedral was once more solemnly opened, amid the cries of a vast multitude of people, “Avenge, O Lord, the blood which has been poured out!” On the anniversary of the Christmas Day when Thomas had launched his last excommunications, the excited people noted “a great thunder sudden and horrible in Ireland, in England, and in all the kingdoms of the French.”  Very soon mighty miracles were wrought by the name of the martyr throughout the whole of Europe.  The metal phials which hung from the necks of pilgrims to the shrine of Canterbury became as famous as the shell and palm branch which marked the pilgrims to Compostella and Jerusalem.  Before ten years were passed the King of France, the Count of Nevers, the Count of Boulogne, the Viscount of Aosta, the Archbishop of Reims, had knelt at his shrine among English prelates, nobles, knights, and beggars.  The feast of the Trinity which Thomas had appointed to be observed on the anniversary of his consecration spread through the whole of Christendom.  Henry, in fact, had to bear the full storm of scorn and hatred that falls on every statesman who stands in advance of the public opinion of his day.  But his seeming surrender at Avranches won for the politic king immediate and decisive advantages.  All fear of excommunication and interdict had passed away.  The clergy were no longer alienated from him.  The ecclesiastical difficulties raised by the coronation, and the jealousies of Louis, were set at rest.  The alliance of the Pope was secured.  The conquest of Ireland was formally approved.  Success seemed to crown Henry’s scheme for the building up of his empire.  Britanny had been secured for Geoffrey in 1171; in June 1172 Richard was enthroned as Duke of Aquitaine; in the following August Henry was crowned for the second time King of England.  Only the youngest child, scarcely five years old, was still “John Lackland,” and in this same year Henry provided a dominion for John by a treaty of marriage between him and the heiress of the Count of Maurienne.  Her inheritance stretched from the Lake of Geneva almost to the Gulf of Genoa;