Roger Bigod , 2nd Earl of Norfolk, MCS 
Roger was born about 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England. Roger's father was Hugh Bigod , 1st Earl of Norfolk and his mother was Juliana de Vere. His paternal grandparents were Roger Bigod , Earl of East Anglia and Adeliza (Alice) de Toeni , Heiress of Belvoir; his maternal grandparents were Aubrey II de Vere , Sheriff of London and Alice de Clare. He had a sister named Isabel. He was the younger of the two children. He died before August 2nd, 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England.General Notes
Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk, who, in the 1st year of Richard I, had a 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. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed, Vol. 3, pages 556/557, article Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1012 in Avranches, Normandy, France d.1071
- 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.~ 0990 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.BET 1038 AND 1039 in In battle with neighbor against succession of William I
- b.~ 1025 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.04 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1010 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 1070 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.> 1130 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.1015 in Savona, Italy d.1079
- b.~ 1035 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.< 1075 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1000 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France
- b.< 1040 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France d.1112 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- b.~ 1005 in Flanders, France
- b.< 1090 in of Great Addington & Drayton, Northamptonshire, England d.15 May 1141 in Slain in a riot in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1050 in Bourboucy, France
- b.1116 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.> 1185
- b.~ 0980 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Assassinated
- b.< 1035 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.May 1089 in Priory of St Neot, Cambridgeshire, England
- b.~ 1009 in Eu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1084 in France
- b.~ 1036 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.> 1133
- b.~ 1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.~ 1093 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.~ 1163
- b.1010 in Creil, Oise, Picardy, France d.1098 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1101 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1010 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.1045 in Montdidier, Somme, France d.1110 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, France d.1062
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‌Roger and Ida were married in a religious ceremony about 1185. They had a son and two daughters, named Hugh, Margaret and Mary.
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Children
Hugh Bigod , 3rd Earl of Norfolk, MCS
Hugh was born in 1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England. He died in Thetford, Norfolk, England. He was buried in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England.
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