Bigod (noble family)

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Bigod was a family of Anglo- Norman nobility who came to England with the Norman Conquest . Her progenitor is probably Robert le Bigot, who did not come from the high Norman nobility, but nevertheless played an essential role at the court of Duke Wilhelm II of Normandy , who later conquered England. Robert and his presumed son Roger took part in the Battle of Hastings and - like so many other Norman nobles - were then rewarded with extensive estates, especially in East Anglia . The Domesday Book lists 6 lordships in Essex , 117 in Suffolk and 187 in Norfolk for Roger .

Roger is sometimes referred to as the Earl of Norfolk , but it is uncertain whether he ever received that title. The first family member to safely use this title, what his son Hugh Bigod († 1177). He was kept in the family until the 5th Earl, Roger Bigod , who gave the county back to the king in 1302, although he had a brother and two nephews.

Tribe list

  1. NN, maybe Robert le Bigot
    1. Roger Bigod , † 1107; ⚭ I Adelais, ⚭ II Alice de Tosny, † after 1136, daughter of Robert deTosny, Lord of Belvoir ( Tosny House )
      1. (I) William Bigod, † November 25, 1120 at the sinking of the White Ship , 1107 Lord of Framlingham, Suffolk, 1116 Sheriff of Suffolk
      2. (II) Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk December 1140 / January 1141, † 1177 before March 9, 1120 Lord of Framlingham; ⚭ before 1140, canceled before 1168, Juliane de Vere, † around 1199, daughter of Aubrey de Vere II , Lord of Hedingham, and Adeliza de Clare; ⚭ II Gundred Warwick, † 1200, daughter of Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick ( House of Beaumont ) and Gundred de Warenne
        1. (I) Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk , † 1221 before August 2; ⚭ around Christmas 1181 Ida (probably Ida de Tosny)
          1. Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk , * 1183/84; † February 1225, probably 11th / 18th; ⚭ 1207 Maud (also Matilda or Mahelt) Marshal, * 1193/94; † 1248, daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( House Marshal ) and Isabel de Clare ( House Clare )
            1. ? Isabel Bigod; ⚭ I Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, ⚭ II John fitz Geoffrey , Lord of Shere, son of Geoffrey fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex
            2. Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk , † July 4, 1270, Marshal of England 1246; ⚭ May 1225 Isabella , daughter of William I , King of Scotland , and Ermengarde de Beaumont
            3. Hugh Bigod , † before May 7, 1266, 1257 Chief Justiciar of England; ⚭ Joan de Stuteville , daughter of Nicolas (II.) De Stouteville and Devorguilla of Galloway, widow of Hugh Wake
              1. Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk , † December 6, 1306, Earl Marshal, returns the county to the king in 1302; ⚭ I Alina Basset, daughter of Sir Philip Basset of Wycombe and Havise deLovaine, widow of Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser († 1265); ⚭ II 1290 Alice d'Avesnes, daughter of Johann von Avesnes , Count of Hainaut and Holland ( House Avesnes )
              2. Sir John Bigod, 1302 of Settrington; ⚭ Isabel
                1. John Bigod of Settringham,
                2. Roger Bigod
              3. Joan Bigod; ⚭ Philip Kyme, 1st Baron Kyme
            4. Ralph Bigod; ⚭ Bertha de Furnival
              1. John Bigod
            5. William Bigod
          2. William Bigod, † young
          3. Ralph Bigod
          4. Roger Bigod, † 1230
          5. ? Alice, † after 1214; ⚭ after 1207 Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Earl of Oxford , † 1214
          6. Margery, ⚭ William Hastings , † 1226
          7. Mary Bigod, ⚭ Ralph FitzRobert, Lord of Middelham
        2. (Ii) Hugh Bigod
        3. (II) William Bigod; ⚭ Margaret, heir daughter of Robert de Sutton of Bures (Essex)
      3. (II) Humphrey Bigod, chaplain to King Henry I , † probably after 1112/13
      4. (II) Gunnor Bigod, † before 1137; ⚭ I Robert FitzSwein, Lord of Rayleigh; ⚭ II Hamo de Saint-Clair
      5. (II) Maud Bigod; ⚭ William d'Aubigny (Pincerna)
        1. William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel , † 1176
      6. (II) Cecily; ⚭ William d'Aubigny (Brito) , † 1137
    2. William Bigod, † after 1091
    3. Maud Bigod, † after 1107; ⚭ Hugues de Hosdenc, † after 1107

Later descendants

A descendant of the last earl's brother was Francis Bigod , who was executed under Henry VIII in connection with the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1537.

literature

  • Marc Morris, The Bigod earl of Norfolk in the thirteenth century (2005)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RW Hoyle: ThePilgrimage of Grace and the Politics in the 1530s, Oxford Press, 2003