Roger Bigod , 4th Earl of Norfolk 
Roger was born about 1208 in Thetford, Norfolk, England. Roger's father was Hugh Bigod , 3rd Earl of Norfolk, MCS and his mother was Maud Marshal. His paternal grandparents were Roger Bigod , 2nd Earl of Norfolk, MCS and Ida Plantagenet; his maternal grandparents were William Marshal , 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare , Countess of Pembroke. He had three brothers and a sister, named Hugh, Ralph le, Simon le and Isabella. He was the oldest of the five children. He had a half-brother named John de. He died on July 4th, 1270 in (dsp).General Notes
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, whose guardianship Alexander, King of Scotland, obtained for 500 marks. This nobleman attained high reputation in all martial and warlike exercises. Skillful and valiant alike in the tilting and battle field, he held a high rank amongst the chivalrous spirits of his day, and won many a trophy in court and camp. In the tournament held at Blithe, in Nottingham (21st Henry III., 1237), which terminated in a conflict between the southern and northern lords, the Earl of Norfolk was pre-eminently distinguished, and in a few years afterwards he gained new laurels at the battle of Zantoigne. But the most remarkable event in his lordship's life was his personal dispute with King Henry III., as thus stated by Dugdale:--"In the 39th Henry III, the Earl of Norfolk, making a just apology for Robert de Ros (a great baron of that age), then charged with some crime which endangered his life, he had very harsh language given him by the king, being openly called traytor; whereat, with a stern countenance he told him (the king) that he lies; and that he never was, nor would be a traytor; adding, 'if you do nothing but what the law warranteth, you can do me no harm.' -- 'Yes,' quoth the king, 'I can thrash your corn and sell it, and so humble you.' To which he replied, 'If you do so, I will send you the heads of your thrashers.' But by the interposing of the lords then present this heat soon passed over, so that (shortly after) he was, together with the Earl of Leicester and some others, sent on an embassy to the King of France to treat with him for restoring some rights which he withheld from the king." His lordship was subsequently appointed by the barons, after their victory at Lewes (48th Henry III.), governor of the castle of Orford, in Suffolk. To this nobleman, by reason of his mother Maud being the eldest co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, the Marshalship of England, with the rights thereunto belonging, was assigned. His lordship m. Isabel, sister of Alexander, King of Scotland, but died issueless in 1270, when all his honours and possessions devolved upon his nephew, Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk. [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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- 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.~ 1035 in St Saveur, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1025 in Tosni, Louviers, Eure, Normandy, France d.04 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1070 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.> 1130 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- 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.< 1040 in Ver, Manche, Normandy, France d.1112 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England
- 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.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.~ 1093 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.~ 1163
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1097 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1112 in France d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandy
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1071 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1119 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.19 JAN 1147/48 in Laodicea, Holy Lands (dspm)
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.> 1087 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.1172
- b.~ 1120 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.04 Oct 1174
- b.~ 1095 in Bourgogne, France d.1191
- b.~ 1208 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.04 Jul 1270 in (dsp)
- b.~ 1045 in Normandy, France d. in Cheddar, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1075 in Somerset, England d.< 1130
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.1054 in Venoix near Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France d.> 1090 in Domesday tenant in East Worldham, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 1090 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1130 in Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1070 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1052 in Chaworth, Nottinghamshire, England d.> 1133 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1060 in Toddingham, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.< 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.< 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1072 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, France
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1049 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France d.05 Jun 1118 in As a monk at Abbey of Preaux, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1050 in Leinster, Ireland d.08 Dec 1115 in Killed in battle with Domnall Ua Briain
- b.1100 in Leinster, Ireland d.1 JAN 1170/71 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland
- b.1080 in Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1089 in Leinster, Ireland
- b.1114 in Leinster, Ireland d.1191
- b.1094 in Leinster, Ireland
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