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Roger Bigod

Male Abt 1065 - 1107  (~ 42 years)


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  • Name Roger Bigod  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Born Abt 1065  St-Sauveur de Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation Earl of East Anglia 
    Occupation 1080 
    Sheriff of Norfolk 
    Occupation 1086 
    Sheriff of Suffolk 
    Occupation 1088 
    Adhered to the party which took up arms against William Rufus, fortifying the castle at Norwich and wasting the country around 
    Occupation 1100 
    Obtained Framlingham in Suffolk as a gift from the crown 
    Died 8 Sep 1107  Earsham, Depwade, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4146  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Robert Le Bigod,   b. Abt 1035 
    Mother Dame de Saint-Sauveur,   b. Abt 1040 
    Married Abt 1060 
    Family ID F7999  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Adéliza de Toëny,   b. 1068, Tosny, Les Andelys, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1136, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Married Abt 1084  Leicester, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Maud Bigod,   b. Abt 1088, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1136  (Age ~ 47 years)
     2. Gunnor Bigod,   b. Abt 1096, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Hugh Bigod,   b. Abt 1099, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1177, Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years)
     4. Jane Bigod,   b. Abt 1102, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1138  (Age ~ 36 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2102  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume IX, pp. 367 & 575-579.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 3 & 59.

    3. [S721] The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, William Flower, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, edited by Charles Best Norcliffe, M.A., of Langton, (The Harleian Society, Mitchell and Hughes, Printers, 140 Wardour Street, W., London, 1881), 336.

    4. [S640] Magna Charta, John S. Wurts, (Brookfield Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1954), 422.

    5. [S639] Domesday Descendants. Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum, Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2002), 738.