Earl Norfolk Roger Bigod 
Roger was born in 1150 in Norfolk, England and his baptism took place in Framlingham, Suffolk, England.1 Roger's father was 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod and his mother was Juliana de Vere. His paternal grandparents were Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Toeni; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Oxford, Justiciar of England Aubrey de Vere II and Adeliza (Alice) de Clare. He had a sister named Isabel. He had two half-brothers named Hugh and William. He died at the age of 71 on August 2nd, 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England.2 General Notes
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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,
# Note: Hugh, his successor.
# Note: William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property.
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# Note: Margery, m. to William de Hastings.
# Note: Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
# Note: Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham.
# Note: The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.
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# Note: [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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# Note: 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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Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 3-1, 7-1, 17c-1, 155-2
Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
Page: 2090
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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.0989 in Normandy, France d.1041
- b.1015 in Avranches, France d.1071
- b.0994 in Normandy, France
- 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.0980 in St. Sauveur, Normandy, France d.1071
- b.1008 in St. Saveur, Cotentin/Manche, Normandy, France d.1073
- b.0985 in Eu, Dieppe, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- 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.0970 in Tosni, France d.1015 in Guerny, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.0990 in Tosni, France d.14 May 1039 in Conches, Seine-Et-Marne, Normandy, France
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- b.1038 in Conches, Seine-Et-Marne, Normandy, France d.Aug 1088 in Stafford, Staffordshire, England
- b.0972 d.25 Feb 1017
- b.0990 d.1077
- b.0975 d.01 Mar 1057
- b.1064 in St. Saveur, France d.1135
- b.0989 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1010 in Aunou, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.1058 in Brione, Normandy, France
- b.1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1085 in France
- b.1034 in Longueville, France d.1133
- b.1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1150 in Norfolk, England d.02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.0965 d.1039
- b.1000 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.0970
- b.1033 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1088 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.0980
- b.1006 in Hedingham, Essex, England
- b.0995 in Flanders, Belgium d.21 Feb 1030 in Flanders, France
- b.1062 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.09 May 1141 in England
- b.0969 in Gand, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1005 in Bourboucy, France d.1052
- b.0963 in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westphalia, Germany d.14 May 1005
- b.1040 in Bourboucy, France d.1089
- b.0985
- b.1005 in Bourboucy, France
- b.0985
- b.1116 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.1199
- b.0989 in Brionne, Eure, Normandy, France d.1040 in Eschafour, Normandy, France
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1010 in Aunou, Orne, Normandy, France
- b.1065 in Clare, England d.1117 in England
- b.1010 in Longueville, Normandy, France d.1085 in France
- b.1034 in Longueville, France d.1133
- b.1014 in Longueville, Normandy, France d. in France
- b.1080 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.1163 in St. Osyth's Priory, Essex, England
- b.1005
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, France d.1101
- b.1010 in Clermont, France
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117
- b.1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.1063 in Ramerupt, Aube, champagne, France
- b.1045 d.1100
- b.1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
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Details of Roger's family with Isabella Ida De Warrenne
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I12929
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tamer&id=I7853&style=TABLE
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