Dictionary of National Biography: Fitzurse, Reginald: "The eldest son of Richard Fitzurse, on whose death about 1168 he inherited the manor of Williton, Somersetshire (Collinson, iii. 487); he also held the manor of Barham,Kent (Hasted, iii. 536), and lands in Northamptonshire (Liber Niger, p. 216). He is sometimes called a baron, for he held of the king in chief. He was one of the four knights who were stirred up by the hasty words of Henry II to plot the archbishop's death...
...The pope... could inflict no heavier penalty than fasting and banishment to the Holy Land.... He and his companions are said to have performed their penance in the ‘Black Mountain’ (various explanations of this name have been given; none are satisfactory; it evidently intended to indicate some place, probably a religious house, near Jerusalem), to have died there, and to have been buried before the door of the Templars' church (Hoveden, ii, 17). It was believed that all died within three years of the date of their crime...
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