Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Ralph Fitz WIGAN Death: Before 1221
- William Fitz WIGAN Death: Before 1225
- Thurstin Fitz WIGAN Death: Before 1221
- (Unk Dau) Fitz WIGAN
- Lucy De BROC
Bibliography
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Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
- date:
- last appeared 1135/36 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
Sources with Information about marriage to Juliana PANTULF
- child:
- [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
Research Notes:
also known as Guigan Algason; Guigan is the latin form of the Breton personal
name anglicized as Wigan, and Algason is a corruption of the Latin word
'agaso, agasonis' which by this date meant 'marshal' [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD
p1030]
abt 1129: witness to a charter of Henry I, perhaps given at Rouen, restoring
land to the Englishman Bernard the Scribe [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1030]
given lands in Warwickshire, in marriage with Juliana Pantulf, for
serjeanty service [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
lands centered on Shrewley, and include land in Dunehurch, Thurlaston,
and Willoughby. Some of them had been part of the forfeited Grandmesnil
fief [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
also given Hill in Warwickshire, which had been held before his
conviction for felony by Roger de Causton [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
given land in Oxfordshire forfeited by Geoffrey Luvet in the d'Oilly
manor of Swerford [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
1135: witness to a charter of Henry I, given at Argentan, granting his
'loricarii' Robert and Hamelin together with John the Marshal [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DD p1030]
referred to by Orderic Vitalis as Vicomte of Exmes [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
Dec 1135: when Geoffrey of Anjou heard of Henry's death he sent his wife
Matilda into Normandy; there Guigan Algason 'a man of low birth but great
power' acknowledged her as his liege-lady and submitted to her the
castles of Exmes, Argentan, Domfront, and other fortified towns [Ref:
Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
forfeited his land when he surrendered his castles to Matilda; it was restored
to Ralph fitz Wigan by Henry II [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1031]
Pedigree of Wigan The Marshal
Wigan The Marshal
Descendants of Wigan The Marshal
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