From About.com: "The story of how Saint Thomas Becket stood up to Henry II of England, the king who'd appointed him Archbishop of Canterbury, and how some careless words shouted in rage by Henry spurred four knights to murder Becket at prayer, is a classic true-life tragedy of the medieval era. But what are paintings of the event doing in a church in Soria, Spain? Well, Henry's daughter Eleanor married King Alfonso VIII of Castile, and it seems she commissioned the paintings as a way to ask God to forgive her father."
See BBC news video here.
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