Hugh de Morville was an Anglo-Norman knight who served King Henry II of England in the late 12th century. He is chiefly famous as one of the assassins of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury in 117
13th-century depiction of Thomas Becket's murder; Hugh de Morville was among the assassins.
Reginald Fitzurse
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Sir Reginald Fitzurse 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 n
Hugh de Morville, Lord of Westmorland
…Bayeux and Caen from which the Beauchamps of Bedford drew their vassals of knightly rank. Hugh de Morville and three other of King Henry II's knights, Reginald Fitzurse, William de Tracy and Richard le Breton (or de Brito), plotted Thomas Becket's murder after interpreting the king's angry words (supposedly "What…
Reginald Fitz Urse shield, "bore, or, a bear passant sable, muzzled argent"