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 the rebellion broke out, the earl, supporting the king's cause, joined [q. v.] in time to take part in the battle of Fornham (. ii. 54). He was also with him the previous July, when Leicester was stormed and burnt (ib. ii. 57). He served as sheriff of Devonshire from 1173 to his death in 1175. Mr. Eyton has shown (Itinerary of Henry II, p. 192) that he died (at Chertsey) 1 July in that year. He was buried at Reading ( p. 268).

There is some difficulty about his children. Robert of Torigny says (ib.) that the king seized on his fief for the use of his son John, only giving small portions of it to the earl's daughters. These were Dionys, wife of Richard, earl of Devon (d. 1162); Matilda, wife of Robert, count of Meulan ( p. 227), who brought him two manors in Cornwall ( cxcvii, cciii); and Sara, who married, in 1159, Ademar, vicomte of Limoges (, Itinerary, p. 48). Mr. Eyton, who had specially studied the subject, assigned him one legitimate son, Nicholas, who left no lawful issue (History of Shropshire, vii. 159). His natural son, Henry ‘FitzCount,’ a man of some note, received, in 1194, from Richard I the manors of Kerswell and Diptford, Devonshire, which, according to the ‘Testa de Nevill,’ had belonged to his father (, Ancient Charters, p. 101), together with Liskeard, Cornwall. He obtained lands and money from John, whose cause he supported, and was given, at the close of his reign, the county of Cornwall at ferm. At the accession of Henry III he was placed in the same position as his father over Cornwall, but was subsequently deprived of it, and, going to the Holy Land, died about 1221 (, Baronage, p. 610).

Mr. Eyton has printed an interesting charter of Earl Reginald towards the close of his life (History of Shropshire, vii. 157–8); this mentions several of his relatives, and a pedigree is appended. Besides a brother William, who held of him in the return of 1166, he had three half-brothers, the legitimate sons of his mother, by her husband, Herbert FitzHerbert. In 1177 at the council of Oxford, Henry II bestowed on his brother William, his half-brother Herbert, and their nephew Joel de Pomerai the fief of Limerick ( ii. 134); but they decided to refuse it (ib. p. 135).



REGINALD (d. 1200), abbot of Walden, became prior of that house in 1164. Through the liberality of its benefactors, notably of William de Mandeville, third earl of Essex [q. v.], Reginald was enabled to raise the priory to the position of an abbey in 1190. The elevation of the house at the expense of the Mandeville estates brought upon it the enmity of the heir, Geoffrey FitzPeter. But the latter, after showing much hostility, also became a benefactor of the abbey (, Mon. Angl., iv. 145 seq.) Reginald appointed vicars to his dependent churches, but conceded to William de Mandeville, during his lifetime, the right of nominating the clergy of seven. He has been placed in the lists of the chancellors of England, but this seems to be a mistake.

Another (fl. 1125) was, according to Leland's uncorroborated testimony (Itinerary, ii. 44), chancellor in Henry I's reign, and afterwards prior and benefactor of the Cluniac house of Montacute in Wiltshire. His name does not appear in the accredited lists of the priors and benefactors of that house.



REGINALD FITZJOCELIN (1140?–1191), archbishop-elect of Canterbury. [See .]

REGINALDA, BATHSUA (fl. 1616), Latin poet. [See .]

REGONDI, GIULIO (1822–1872), guitarist and concertina-player, was, according to his own account, born at Geneva in 1822. His earliest recollections dated from Lyons, where he lived with a man whom he regarded as his father, a teacher of languages, who had been professor at the gymnasium in Milan in 1822. During this period at Lyons Regondi, who early showed great aptitude for music, was compelled, by being locked in his room, to practice five hours daily on the guitar, and he advanced so rapidly that his father, yielding to the advice of a Dr. Young, took him to all the principal European courts, excepting that of Spain, before he was ten years old. The pair arrived in England in June 1831, and some time was passed in Dublin, where Regondi became friendly with Mrs. Hemans, who in 1834 wrote a poem about him (cf. Musical World, 1872, p. 334). In 1841 Regondi made a concert-tour with the violoncellist, Josef Liedel, which culminated in six very successful concerts at Vienna, Regondi himself playing an instrument described as a melophone (cf., Geschichte des Concertwesens, Vienna, 1869, p. 341). 