Reginald Fitzurse
12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and assassin of Thomas Becket / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Reginald FitzUrse (1145–1173)[1] was one of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170. His name is derived from Fitz, the Anglo-Norman French term meaning "son of" and urse meaning a bear, likely the nom de guerre of an ancestor. Although he lived before the true age of heraldry, which developed in the early 13th century, his shield bore the cognizance of a bear, which is visible in a contemporary drawing portraying the murder of Becket.