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• Name: Roger BIGOD, Baron Of Framlingham
• Sex: M
• Death: 8 Sep 1107 in Earcham, Norfolk ^d
• Burial: Norwich ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Robert Le BIGOT

Family:
Marriage:

• Adelaide on 1 .^m1
  
• Adelaide

Marriage:

• Alice De TOENI on 2 .^m2
  
• Alice De TOENI Death: After 1136

Children:

1. William BIGOD, Baron Of Framlingham Birth: 1 Death: 25 Nov 1120 in White Ship
2. Hugh BIGOD, Earl Of Norfolk And Suffolk Birth: Abt 1095 Death: Before 9 Mar 1176/7
3. Humphrey BIGOD Death: Abt 1118
4. Gunnor BIGOD Birth: 1
5. Jane BIGOD
6. Maud Le BIGOD Birth: Abt 1095 Death: Abt 1129
7. Cecily De BELVOIR Birth: 5 Death: After 1164

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:

possible Robert le Bigot, but seems unlikely on chronological grounds [Ref: CP IX p575(b)],

note:

Robert le Bigot [Ref: Wurts MCBarons p422]

Sources for death Information

date:

1106 [Ref: Daykin Daubeney p298/9]

1107 [Ref: Keats-Rohan Belvoir p3, Keats-Rohan DD p43, Sanders Baronies p12, Sanders Baronies p46, Sanders Baronies p70(2)]

15 Sep 1107 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #109]

8 Sep or 15 Sep 1107 [Ref: CP IX p578]

8 oder 15.IX 1107 [Ref: ES III.4 #705],

place:

[Ref: CP IX p578, ES III.4 #705]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

8 Sep 1100 [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p4]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: CP IX p578],

note:

burial place given as Abbey of Whetford in Norfolk in [Ref: Wurts MCBarons p42]

Sources with Information about marriage to Adelaide

date:

first marriage of Roger [Ref: CP IX p577]

Sources with Information about marriage to Alice De TOENI

date:

second marriage of Roger [Ref: CP I p233 (with corr in XIV p37), CP IX p367 (with corr in XIV p492), CP IX p577, Sanders Baronies p47(1)],

names:

[Ref: Daykin Daubeney p298/9, Keats-Rohan DD p738],

child:

[Ref: Alan B. Wilson SGM 9/17/1998, CP I p233 (with corr in XIV p37), CP IX p367 (with corr in XIV p492), CP IX p578(c), CP IX p579, CP++(proposed) Norfolk 12/31/2006 (CP IX p578), Farrer EYC v1p461, Green Belvoir p1, Green Belvoir p2, Keats-Rohan DD p174, Keats-Rohan DD p175, Keats-Rohan DD p271, Keats-Rohan DD p43, Keats-Rohan DP p380, Keats-Rohan DP p396, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p249, Round Belvoir p106, Sanders Baronies p12, Watney WALLOP #109, Weis MC #155]

Research Notes:
Seigneur of Les Loges, Calvados, arr Vire, cnt Aumay-sur-Odon and Savenay, arr Vire, cant Villers-Bocage, comm Courvaudon [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

of Framlingham [Ref: Sanders Baronies p12]

Parentage not certainly known [Ref: CP IX p575]

it is probable that Roger was married only once, although he is usually credited with two wives of the same name on the inconclusive evidence of a pro anama clause in a charter of his son William [Ref: Keats-Rohan Belvoir p1]

married only once [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

the charter of William Bigod (Ego Willielmus Bigot, dapifer regis Anglorum, pro remedio animarum patris mei Rogerii Bigot et matris meae Adelidis et pro salute mea et fratris mei Hugonis et sororum mearum (Dugdale, Mon., vol. v, pp. 148-9)) is interpreted as implying that his mother predeceased him, and thus that Roger Bigod had two wives both called Adelaide/Alice. But Keats-Rohan considers the language to be inconclusive, and suggests that Roger had only one wife. She also refers to a charter of of the time of Henry I (therefore 1100 or later) of Roger and Adelisa for Rochester Priory, attested by their children William, Humphrey, Gunnor and Matilda; on the hypothesis of the Complete Peerage, this would imply that the first wife survived at least until 1100, despite the suggested birth date of around 1095 for Hugh, seen as a son of the second marriage [Prosopon, no 9 (1998); K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p. 396 (1999)]. [Ref: CP++(proposed) Norfolk 12/31/2006 (CP IX p578)]

Descended from Sveide The Viking, a Norse King who died 760 [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p4]

Sheriff of Norfolk for much of William I's reign [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

1070's and 80's: alternated with Robert Malet as Sheriff of Suffolk [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

Domesday lord of lands in Suffolk [Ref: Sanders Baronies p46]

1086: held 6 lordships in Essex and 117 in Suffolk [Ref: Watney WALLOP #109]

1100-07: Sheriff of Norfolk [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

Sheriff of Suffolk, founder the Priory of Thetford [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p4]

1103: founded the Abbey of Thetford in Norfolk [Ref: CP IX p577, Wurts MCBarons p42]

charters for Thetford by William and Gunnor Bigod mention their father, mother, brothers and sisters with no reference to stepmother or half-blood [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p396]

founded the Abbey of Thetford in lieu (it is said) of making a pilgramage to the Holy Land, and before it was finished granted it to Cluny [Ref: CP IX p577]

said to have been granted Framlingham by Henry I [Ref: Sanders Baronies p46]



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