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Roger le Bigod

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  • Name Roger le Bigod 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I6712  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Roger le Bigod,   d. Bef 2 Aug 1221 
    Mother Ida de Tony,   b. of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 25 Dec 1181 
    Family ID F2737  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “IDA DE TONY. Prior to marriage, Ida was a mistress of King Henry II of England [see ENGLAND 4], by whom she was the mother of William Longespée, Knt., Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPEE 5]. She married about Christmas 1181 ROGER LE BIGOD, Knt., 4th Earl of Norfolk, hereditary Steward of the Household, Privy Councillor, Keeper of Hertford Castle, 1191, Judge in the King's Court, 1195, 1196, 1199, 1202, Chief Judge in the King's Court, 1197, Warden of Romford Forest, 1200, son and heir of Hugh le Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, by his 1st wife, Juliane, daughter of Aubrey de Vere, of Great Addington and Drayton, Northamptonshire and Hedingham, Essex. He was born before 1140. They had five sons, Hugh [5th Earl of Norfolk], William, Roger, John, and Ralph, and three daughters, Mary, Margaret, and Ida. He bore the standard of St. Edmund at the Battle of Fornham in 1173. On the death of Roger's father in 1176, he and his stepmother, Gundred, appealed to the king on a dispute touching the inheritance, the countess pressing the claims of her own son. King Henry II subsequently seized the Bigod lands into his own hands. During the remainder of the reign, it seems Roger had little power, even if his succession was allowed. In the period, 1177-89, he confirmed the gift of Walter son of William de Shaldingfield his knight made to Sibton Abbey, Suffolk of 41 acres of land in Bruisyard, Suffolk. In the same period, he granted Reiner Fitz Berengar and Richard his son land in Friday Street, London. On King Richard I's accession in 1189, Roger was confirmed in the earldom of Norfolk and in the stewardship of the royal household. He was also appointed an ambassador to King Philippe of France to arrange for Richard's coming crusade. In the period, 1189-93, Roger granted 3 marks of annual rent in Walton, Norfolk to Reading Abbey for the health of his soul and that of his wife, Ida. In the same period, he granted the land of Geoffrey Fitz Geoffrey to West Dereham Abbey. In the period, 1189-1202, he granted William Fitz Richard a certain member of the manor of Notley, Essex. In the period, 1189-1202, he confirmed to the nuns of St. Mary, Wix the alms that Roger de Glanville gave them in Middleton, Suffolk. In the period, 1189-1202, he granted Richard de Seething 20 acres of land in Seething, Norfolk. In the period, 1189-1202, he granted Roger de Reimes the manor of Colne, Essex. In the period, 1189-1202, he granted to the men of Acle, Norfolk that they shall have hereditarily their turbaries. In the period, 1189-1204, Reynold de Thorp granted him and his heirs six acres of land Hervey the baker held of his fee in Heveningham, Suffolk; in the same period Earl Roger granted the same property to Hervey the baker and his heirs for the free annual service of 12d. payable to the grantor and his heirs and liable in Id. in the pound towards scutage. In the period, 1189-1217, he granted Sibton Abbey 21 acres of land in Wrabton (in Yoxford) and Kelsale, Suffolk, in exchange for the same amount of the monks' demesne which Roger enclosed within his park at Kelsale, Suffolk. In the period, 1189-1221, he grant to Barlings Abbey all his right in Holy Trinity, Bungay. In the period, 1189-1221, he granted to Anketil son of Anketil de Bungay land in Halvergate, Norfolk. In the period, 1189-1221, he granted Dodnash Priory his mill of Flatford in East Bergholt, Norfolk. In the same period, he granted to Dodnash Priory the homage and service of Adam Burris. In 1191 he was put in charge of Hereford Castle. In 1193 he was summoned with certain other barons and prelates to attend the chancellor into Germany, where negotiations were being carried on to effect King Richard's release from captivity. The same year he confirmed the covenant between Wymonclham Abbey and Ralph de Melves, his knight. In the period, 1193-8, he granted Reading Abbey three marks of rent from the church of Finchingfield. In 1194 he was present at the great council held at Nottingham. At the re-coronation of King Richard I 17 April 1194, he assisted in bearing the canopy. He served as a justiciar, fines being levied before him in the fifth year of Richard's reign and from the seventh onwards. He continued to act as a judge in King John's reign. In 1198 he confirmed earlier gifts to Felixstone Priory. In the period, 1199-1202, he granted Colne Priory the church of Dovercourt and the chapel of Harwich. In the period, 1199-1221, he granted Hinlding Priory the chapel of All Saints, Hacheston, Suffolk. In the same period, he granted Carrow Nunnery two sheaves of the tithe of Halvergate, Norfolk. In the period, 1199-1221, he quitclaimed to Ely Cathedral all actions and plaints in the hundreds of Carlford, Wilford, and Loes, Suffolk. In the period, 1199-1221, he granted Leiston Abbey the church of St. Mary, Middleton. In 1200 he was sent with other nobles to escort his wife's kinsman, William the Lion, King of Scots to do homage to King John at Lincoln. The same year William Fitz Alan agreed to hold for the life of the earl half a fee in Theberton, Suffolk. In 1209 his half-brother, Hugh le Bigod, quitclaimed to him all his right to the lands of Acle, Earsham, Halvergate, Little Framingham, and South Walsham, Norfolk, and Settrington, Yorkshire, in exchange for £30 worth of lands. He was imprisoned for unknown causes in 1213. He accompanied the king to Poitou in 1214. The following year he joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence he was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. His lands were forfeited and cruelly ravaged by the king. After the accession of King Henry III, he returned to his allegiance, and had order for the restoration of his lands in September 1217. SIR ROGER LE BIGOD, 4th Earl of Norfolk, died in 1221, before 2 August.
      Blomefield Essay towards a Top. His of Norfolk 9 (1808): 293-297 ("The Conqueror, soon after the survey, gave it [Acle, Norfolk] to Roger Bigot, ancestors to the Earls of Norfolk, in frank marriage with Ida de Tony"). Placitorum in Domo Capitalari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 56,61. Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 102; 6(2) (1830): 881-882 (charter dated 1199-1221 issued by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, names his parents, Earl Hugh and Countess Juliane, and his wife, Countess Ida), 913 (undated charter of Countess Juliane, naming her husbands, Hugh le Bigod and Walkelin Maminot). Hardy Rotuli Normannia in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1 (1835): 120. Suckling Hist. & Antiq. of Suffolk 2 (1848): 448 (charter of Roger le Bigod). NEHGR 10 (1856): 262, note b ("Roger Bigod had two wives, Ida de Thouy and Isabella de Warren."). Fowler Mems. of the Chaunceys (1858): 45. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1865): 91-103. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod) (author erroneously identifies Ida, wife of Roger le Bigod, as "Isabel, dau. of Hamelyn, Earl of Warenne and Surrey"). Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 140 (sub A.D. 1200). Stubbs Mem. Fratris Walteri de Coventria 2 (Rolls Ser. 58) (1871): 170 (sub A.D. 1200). Matthew of Paris Chronica Mejora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-644. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 575-576 (sub Norfolk). Malo Un grand feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 308-310. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 486 187 (biog. of Roger Bigod). Rye Some Hist. Essays Rel. Norfolk 2 (1925): 102. Thompson Liber Vitæ Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1928): folio 63b. C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 47. Cheney Letters of Pope Innocent III 1198-1216 (1967): 172. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 8-9, 143, 188. Mortimer Cartulary of Leiston Abbey & Butlg Priory Charters (Suffolk Chatters 1) (1979): 18, 19, 65, 84 (charter of Roger Bigod, Earl of Bigod, dated c.1190-1221), 144 ("Domino Rogero Bigot, Comit Norf " occurs as witness to charter dated 1189-1221). TG 3 (1982): 265-266. Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 25, 51, 85, 94-95, 108, 146, 148; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 102, 213-214, 284-285; 3 (Suffolk Charters 9) (1987): 22 (charter of Roger Bygot, Earl of Norfolk dated 1189-1217), 116-117 (confirmation charter of Roger Bygot dated 1177-1189), 162, 163 (charter of Roger Bygot, Earl of Norfolk dated 1189-1204). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 371. Scarfe Suffolk in the Middle Ages (1986): 64. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 549. Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 38, 42-44, 73-75 (charters of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk), 83-86, 110-111. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1, 1-3, 210-212 (list of charters of Roger le Bigod). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 331-332.
      Children of Roger le Bigod, Knt., by Ida de Tony:
      i. HUGH LE BIGOD, 5th Earl of Norfolk [see next].
      ii. MARY LE BIGOD, married RANULPH FITZ ROBERT, of Middleham, Yorkshire [see NEVILLE 7].
      iii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LE BIGOD, married WILLIAM DE HASTINGS, Knt., of Ashill, Norfolk [see HASTINGS 7].”