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Roger de Bigod, Earl of Norfolk

Male 1140 - 1221  (81 years)


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  • Name Roger de Bigod 
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Birth Before 1140  [3
    History birth to death 
    • In 1163, he attended the Council of Claredon. [3]
    • In October 1171, he was with the King at Pembroke. [3]
    • On 25 November 1189, he became the the second Earl of Norfolk. [1, 4, 5]
    • In 1215, he was one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta.
    • He was Steward of the Household of Richard I and one of the four earls who carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head at his second coronation.
    Death Before Aug 1221  [1, 4, 5
    Person ID I3660  | Roy Line, Boudreau Line
    Last Modified 19 Jan 2020 

    Father Hugh de Bigod, Lord of Framlingham,   b. Abt 1095 
    Mother Juliana de Vere   d. 1199 to 1200 
    Family ID F2968  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ida Plantagenet,   b. Abt 1154  [1
    Marriage Y  [4, 5
    Children 
    +1. Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk,   b. Before 1178   d. Feb 1224/25 (Age 47 years)
    +2. Margaret Bigod   d. 31 Mar 1237, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F2954  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Dec 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Weis (1982) says he was born about 1150. [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982).

    2. [S2000] ------------- Sources Below not Reviewed -------------.

    3. [S517] Reed, Paul C. and Dorothy E. Hopkins. "The Identity of Anne Gifford, Wife of Thomas Goddard: Correcting the Royal Ancestry of the Immigrant William Goddard" , (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 156, April 2002).

    4. [S278] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (web: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html).

    5. [S65] Sewell, Robert James. Sewell: A History of the Sewell Family from the Earliest Times, (unknown: manuscript, March 2008).