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- fitz: a prefix to patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin, from French fils – son.
- Sir Reginald Fitzurse: (1145 – 1173) one of the four knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170. Legends hold that Fitzurse fled to Ireland where he fathered the McMahon clan.