Hugh Bigod II 
Hugh was born in 1170.1 Hugh's father was Earl Norfolk Roger Bigod and his mother was Isabella Ida De Warrenne. His paternal grandparents were 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod and Juliana de Vere; his maternal grandparents were Earl Surrey Hammelin (of Anjou) Plantagent De Warrenne and Isabella De Warrenne. He had two sisters named Margery and Mary. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 54 in February 1224.2 General Notes
Hugh Bigod (1186-1225) of Thetford, was the eldest son of Roger, Earl of Norfolk, and for a short time the 3rd Earl of Norfolk, Earl Marshall of England, and one of the 25 surites of Magna Carta of King John. He succeeded to his father s estates circa 1220, during the 5th year of the reign of King Henry III. (Richard Thomson: An Historical Essay on Magna Charta, London, 1829; Page 311.) Hugh Bigod, the 3rd Earl of Norfolk, was one of the eight Barons who resisted the King's autocratic maladministration of the economy in what later became known as the barons war which was led by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and brother-in-law to Henry III. The revolt now represents the most important demand for parliamentary democracy in England, called for by peers of the realm, after the events that led King John to sign Magna Charta.
Simon de Montfort was one of the 12 signitories of the 'April Confederacy', which represented the inception of the revolutionary movement, and one of the 24 authors of the 'Provisions of Oxford'. He was one of the 15 members of the privy council, along with Hugh Bigod and the earls of Gloucester and Hereford, Roger Mortimer, John fitz Geoffrey, Peter de Montfort, (not related to Simon), and the Bishop of Worcester. These barons thought fit to stand against the King and signed an oath to form a commune 'in which they swore to look after each others interests'. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and Roger, then the Earl of Norfolk (Hugh Bigod's father), and Peter of Savoy signed the oath.
The conservative faction, led by Richard, Earl of Gloucester, supported the Provisions of Oxford and the Ordinance of the Sheriffs, but opposed the Provisions of Westminster. They wanted control over the king and his officials, but rejected a similar control over themselves and their agents. While many of the barons joined this alliance, Hugh Bigod, the justiciar, and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, remained neutral.
King Henry III's foreign advisors were compelled to leave the country, for fear of their lives, following the disruption that followed these events, but were met at the castle of the Bishop of Winchester, Aymer of Valance, one of the foreign advisors employed by Henry, and were besieged by the Barons. The Barons confederaton, lead by Hugh Bigod, banished the French from the country, confiscating their castles issuing a stern warning not to return.
De Montfort had the support of the Earl of Gloucester, the 'Cinque Ports', and the citizens of London, besides most of the lesser nobility, and controlled the south of the country. In May 1264, Leicester discovered the king was camped at Lewes, and on 14th, attacked and won the Battle of Lewes, capturing Henry, his brother the Prince Edward, Richard of Cornwall and Henry of Almain.
Simon De Montfort later was killed at the Battle of Evesham, but the revolt continued until July of 1267 with small pockets of resistance remaining in different parts of the country.
Hugh Bigod's family conections to the king of Scotland
The 3rd Earl Norfolk had married in 1207 to Maude Marshall (1192-1248), daughter of Sir William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, at Pembroke in Pembrokeshire.
Hugh and Maud had the following children:
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, born in 1212.
Hugh Bigod, Justiciar of England.
Isabel de Bigod (married first to Gilbert de Lacy)
Sir Ralph Bigod.
William Bigod.
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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.1015 in Avranches, France d.1071
- b.1035 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France d.1071
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- b.1060 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France d.15 Sep 1107 in Egersham, Norfolk, England
- b.1008 in St. Saveur, Cotentin/Manche, Normandy, France d.1073
- b.1040 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France
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- b.1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. England d.06 Mar 1176 in Thetford Abbey, Norfolk, England
- b.0990 in Tosni, France d.14 May 1039 in Conches, Seine-Et-Marne, Normandy, France
- b.1038 in Conches, Seine-Et-Marne, Normandy, France d.Aug 1088 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England
- b.0990 d.1077
- b.1064 in St. Saveur, France d.1135
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1058 in Brione, Normandy, France
- b.1034 in Longueville, France d.1133
- b.1150 in Norfolk, England d.02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1000 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.1033 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1088 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.1006 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.1062 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.09 May 1141 in England
- b.1005 in Bourboucy, France d.1052
- b.1040 in Bourboucy, France d.1089
- b.1005 in Bourboucy, France
- b.1116 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1199
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1065 in Clare, England d.1117 in England
- b.1034 in Longueville, France d.1133
- b.1080 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1163 in St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, France d.1101
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117
- b.1045 d.1100
- b.1170 d.Feb 1224
- b.1033 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.1093 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.1060 in Montfort, France d.14 Feb 1116 in Fontrevault, France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau du Loir, France
- b.1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110 in LeMans, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.1080 d.08 Feb 1100
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.Apr 1202 in England
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Normandie, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.21 Feb 1069 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis, Seine-St. Dennis, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.05 Aug 1102 in Windchester, England
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.1079 in Dumferline, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.1055 in Bellebcombe, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.1083 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Lewes, Surrey, England
- b.1055 in Normandie, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.1110 in Vermandois, France d.19 Jan 1147 in Laodicea
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Asia Minor
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1062 in France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1137 in Surrey, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, England
- b.1052 in St. Germain, Montgomery, Normandy, France d.08 May 1131 in Warham Castle, Dorsetshire, England
- b.1087 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.30 Jun 1171
- b.1055 in Abbeville, Ponthieu, Normandy, France d.06 Oct 1100 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1110 in Sussex, England d.04 Oct 1174
- b.1058 d.23 Mar 1103 in Tarsus, Cilicie, Asia Minor
- b.Nov 1080 in Burgundy, France d.28 Feb 1140
- b.1065 d.23 Mar 1102
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Details of Hugh's family with Countess of Norfolk Maud Matilda Marshall
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I8475
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I6583
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I8475, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I6583
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I8475, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants
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