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MORVILE, HUGH DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORVILE, See also:HUGH DE , one of the four See also:English knights who perpetrated the See also:murder of See also:Becket. He appears in the service of See also:Henry II. from 1158. His See also:principal See also:estate was at Burghon-Sands. After the See also:archbishop's murder Hugh and his associates at first took See also:refuge in See also:Knaresborough See also:Castle; afterwards the See also:king sent them to obtain absolutioh from the See also:pope. The See also:story runs that all four were enjoined to go on See also:pilgrimage to the See also:Holy See also:Land, but it is not known whether. Hugh made his expiation in this way. The date of his See also:death is unknown, but it was in or before 1202/3, when we find his English lands in the hands of his two daughters as co-heiresses. See Eyton's Itinerary of Henry H.; See also:Ramsay, Angevin See also:England.

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