Born in 1130, Reginald Fitzurse was a land-owning Norman baron. Having inherited Williton in Somerset from his father, he also owned Barham Manor in Kent and lands in Northamptonshire. But Fitzurse is not remembered as a landowner. He is remembered for one thing only - a single violent act of phenomenal brutality and sacrilege. Fitzurse was leader of the four Norman knights who murdered the greatest saint of the middle ages - Archbishop Thomas Becket. Read the real-life story of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket in Political Assassinations along with many other horrific killings of famous people and the twisted conspiracies surrounding their deaths.
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Brutus and Cassius - Julius Caesar, Walter Tirel - King William II, Reginald Fitzurse - Archbishop Thomas Becket, Charlotte Corday - Jean-Paul Marat, John Wilkes Booth - US President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Guiteau - US President James Garfield, Jacques Mornard - Leon Trotsky, Lee Harvey Oswald - US President John F Kennedy,
Thomas McMahon - Lord Louis Mountbatten
