Reginald fitz Urse in Suffolk in 1194?
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Robert Goff@rwgoff19812@gmail.com to
soc.genealogy.medieval on Tue Sep 9 18:59:29 2025
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There may be evidence that Reginald fitz Urse did not die on pilgrimage/crusade.
In 1194-1214, Reginaldo Urso, Walter fratre eius, and Arnaldo fratre
eurom witnessed a grant of land in Cockfield, Suffolk adjacent to the
land of Matilda de Bradfield [Bradfield St. Clare]. Michael Gervers,
Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, second
Camera (Oxford University Press: British Academy 1982), p. 340-341.
Walter Ursus de Colchester gave to St. John, Colchester land in
Colchester that he held of St. Edmunds Abbey. Colchester Cartulary, vol.
1, p. 321-322.
On the 1130 pipe roll, Richard son of Ursonis was pardoned 16s. in
Essex, Green, 1130 Pipe Roll, p. 47. The Colchester portion of the 1194
pipe roll has a debt owed by Richard fil Ursi. Stenton, 1194 Pipe Roll,
p. 225.
According to the Northamptonshire Geld Roll, dated to sometime after the Norman Conquest but not later than 1075, thus predating Domesday Book,
Urs held -+ a hide in Corby Hundred from which geld had not been paid.
Henry Ellis, A General Introduction to Domesday Book, vol. 1 (Record Commission, 1833), p. 187; A.J. Robertson, Anglo-Saxon Charters, p.
236-237; John Horace Round, Medieval England (London: Swan Sonnenschein
and Co., 1895), p. 147-154.
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