Hugh Bigod , 1st Earl of Norfolk 
Hugh was born about 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England. Hugh's father was Roger Bigod , Earl of East Anglia and his mother was Adeliza (Alice) de Toeni , Heiress of Belvoir. His paternal grandparents were Robert Bigod and Miss St. Saveur; his maternal grandparents were Robert de Toeni , Lord of Belvoir and Adeliza de Savona. He had four sisters named Maud, Cecily, Gunnor and Jane. He was the third oldest of the five children. He died about 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England. He was buried in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England.General Notes
Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, b. c. 1095, Lord of Framlingham, 1120, Royal Steward, 1123 (son of Roger Bigod, d. Sep 1107, and his wife Alice, living 1130, daughter of Robert de Toeni, Lord of Belvoir). [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Hugh Bigod, brother of William, steward of the household of King Henry I, was also steward to King Henry I, who being mainly instrumental in raising Stephen, Earl of Bologne, to the throne upon the decease of his royal master, was rewarded by this new king with the Earldom of the East Angles, commonly called Norfolk, and by that designation we find him styled in 1140 (6th Stephen). His lordship remained faithful in his allegiance to King Stephen through the difficulties which afterwards beset that monarch, and gallantly defended the castle of Ipswich against the Empress Maud and her son until obligated at length to surrender for want of timely relief. In the 12th Henry II, this powerful noble certified his knight's fee to be one hundred and twenty-five "de vetri feoffamento," and thirty-five "de novo," upon the occasion of the assessment in aid of the marriage of the king's daughter; and he appears to have acquired at this period a considerable degree of royal favour, for we find him not only re-created Earl of Norfolk,by charter, dated at Northampton, but by the same instrument obtaining a grant of the office of steward, to hold in as ample a manner as his father had done in the time of Henry I. Notwithstanding, however, these and other equally substantial marks of the kings liberality, the Earl of Norfolk sided with Robert, Earl of Leicester, in the insurrection incited by that nobleman in favor of the king's son (whom Henry himself had crowned,) in the 19th of the monarch's reign; but his treason upon this occasion cost him the surrender of his strongest castles, and a find of 1,000 marks. After which he went into the Holy Land with the Earl of Flanders, and died in 1177. His lordship had married twice; by his 1st wife, Julian, dau. of Alberic de Vere, he had a son, Rogers; and by his 2nd, Gundred, he had two sons, Hugh and William. He was s. by his eldest son, Roger Bigod, 2nd 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, Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0955 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0979 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1012 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.~ 0979 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1034 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.~ 1060 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France d.08 Sep 1107 in Evesham, Suffolk, England.
- b.~ 1010 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1035 in St Saveur, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 0930 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.< 0970 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.> 1015 in Guerny, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0990 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.BET 1038 AND 1039 in In battle with neighbor against succession of William I
- b.~ 0930 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0970 in Bayeux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1025 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.04 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 0926 in Barcelona, Spain d.30 Sep 0992
- b.0972 in Barcelona, Spain d.25 FEB 1018/19
- b.0952 in Toulouse, France d.> 0997
- b.~ 1010 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 0945 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1012
- b.0975 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1 MAR 1057/58
- b.0949 in Pons, St Hippolyte, Languedoc, France d.~ 1011
- b.~ 1070 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.> 1130 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.0990 in Savona, Italy
- b.1015 in Savona, Italy d.1079
- b.0995 in Turin, Italy
- b.~ 1035 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.< 1075 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
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Hugh and Juliana de were married in a religious ceremony about 1133 in 1st husband - Marriage was annulled. They had a son and a daughter, named Roger and Isabel.
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Children
Roger Bigod , 2nd Earl of Norfolk, MCS
Roger was born about 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England. He died before August 2nd, 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England.
Hugh and Gundred de were married in a religious ceremony after 1150 in 2nd/3rd wife.
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