 Abt 1150 - Bef 1221 (< 71 years)
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| Name |
Roger Bigod |
| Title |
2nd Earl of Norfolk |
| Birth |
Abt 1150 |
Norfolk, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Bef 2 Aug 1221 |
Thetford, Norfolk, England |
| Person ID |
I36785 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod, b. Abt 1095, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d. Abt 1177, Thetford Church, Norfolk, England (Age 82 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Juliana de Vere, b. 1116, Hedingham, Essex, England d. Aft 1185 (Age > 70 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
Abt 1133 |
Marriage was annulled |
| Family ID |
F13574 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ida (Isabel) de Warenne, b. 1154, Norfolk, England d. 1189/1259 (Age 105 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1185 |
| Children |
| | 1. 3rd Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod, b. 1186, Thetford, Norfolk, England d. 18 Feb 1225, Thetford, Norfolk, England (Age 39 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Margaret Bigod, b. Abt 1183, Norfolk, England d. 1237 (Age 54 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Mary Bigod, b. Abt 1196, Thetford, Norfolk, England [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F13552 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk, who, in the 1st year of Richard I, had charter dated at Westminster, 27 November, reconstituting him Earl of Norfolk and steward of the household, his lordship obtaining at the same time restitution of some manors, with grants of others, and confirmation of all his wide-spreading demesnes. In the same year he was made one of the ambassadors from the English monarch to Philip of France, for obtaining aid towards the recovery of the Holy Land. Upon return of King Richard from his captivity, the Earl of Norfolk assisted at the great council held by the king at Nottingham; and at his second coronation, his lordship was one of the four earls that carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head. In the reign of King John he was one of the barons that extorted the great Charters of Freedom from that prince, and was amongst the twenty-five lords appointed to enforce their fulfillment. His lordship m. Isabel, dau. of Hamelyn, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue,
Hugh, his successor.
William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property.
Thomas.
Margery, m. to William de Hastings.
Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham.
The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.
[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk]
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The Bigods held the hereditary office of steward (dapifer) of the royal household, and their chief castle was at Framlingham in Suffolk.[Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed, Vol. 3, pages 556/557, article Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)
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| Sources |
- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Line 3, 155.
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