General Notes

via Larry Overmire
Magna Carta Surety
Burial: Thetford Church, Norfolk, England
Note:
Note: aka Bigot

DESCENDANT OF CHARLEMAGNE, ALFRED THE GREAT, WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, AND HENRY I

GREAT GRANDSON OF EMPRESS MATILDA

3RD EARL OF NORFOLK & SUFFOLK, EARL OF PEMBROKE, HEREDITARY STEWARD OF THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD

ONE OF THE 25 BARONS CHOSEN TO ENFORCE MAGNA CARTA

Hugh inheritedChepstow Castle and the Earldom of Pembroke from his wife Maud, the daughter of Sir William Marshall.

William, Henry and Harvey Bigot also signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

Notes on this website are authored by Larry Overmire, unless noted otherwise. Permission of the author is required to reproduce elsewhere.




Sources:
1) Jim Weber Database
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03410
2) Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, by Sir Bernard Burke, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London,1883, p. 358, Marshal, Earls of Pembroke
3) The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 148-2, 151-1, 155-3
4) Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, CharlesMosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 Page: 2090
5) Framlingham Castle Website
http://www.castles-abbeys.co.uk/Framlingham-Castle.html
6) The National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons
http://www.magnacharta.org/Default.htm
7) The Children of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare, by Catherine Armstrong.
http://www.castlewales.com/mar_chld.html