• Reginald fitz Urse in Suffolk in 1194?

    From Robert Goff@rwgoff19812@gmail.com to soc.genealogy.medieval on Tue Sep 9 18:59:29 2025
    From Newsgroup: soc.genealogy.medieval

    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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