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Personal data Roger Bigod , 2nd Earl of NOrfolk, MCS 

• He was born about 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England.Sources 1, 2
• He died before August 2, 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England.Source 3
• He is buried in Thetford, Norfolk, England.
• A child of Hugh Bigod and Juliane de Vere
• This information was last updated on August 8, 2023.

Household of Roger Bigod , 2nd Earl of NOrfolk, MCS

He is married to Ida de ADDED Tosny.

They got married about December 25, 1181.

Child(ren):

1. Hugh Bigod  ± 1182-???? 
2. Margaret (Margery) Bigod  ± 1183-1237 

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Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk

Arms adopted by Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, at the start of the Age of Heraldry c. 1200–1215 (dropped after 1269 by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk): Or, a cross gules
Bornc. 1144/1150
Died1221
Noble familyBigod family
Spouse(s)Ida de Tosny
Issue
Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk
William Bigod
Ralph Bigod
Roger Bigod
Margery de Hastings
Mary Bigod
FatherHugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
MotherJuliana de Vere
Roger Bigod (c. 1144/1150 – 1221) was the son of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk and his first wife, Juliana de Vere. Although his father died in 1176 or 1177, Roger did not succeed to the earldom of Norfolk until 1189 for his claim had been disputed by his stepmother for her sons by Earl Hugh in the reign of Henry II. King Richard I confirmed him in his earldom and other honours, and also sent him as an ambassador to France in the same year. Roger inherited his father's office as royal steward. He took part in the negotiations for the release of Richard from prison, and after the king's return to England became a justiciar.

During the Revolt of 1173–74, Roger remained loyal to the king while his father sided with the king's rebellious sons. Roger fought at the Battle of Fornham on 17 October 1173, where the royalist force defeated a rebel force led by Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester.[1]

In most of the years of the reign of King John, the earl was frequently with the king or on royal business. Yet Roger was to be one of the leaders of the baronial party which obtained John's assent to Magna Carta, and his name and that of his son and heir Hugh II appear among the twenty-five barons who were to ensure the king's adherence to the terms of that document. The pair were excommunicated by the pope in December 1215, and in 1216 John marched to East Anglia with a force of mercenaries and laid siege to Roger's seat of Framlingham Castle. Bigod was away, but Framlingham's garrison has 26 knights, 20 sergeants-at-arms, 7 crossbowmen, 1 chaplain and 3 others, perhaps enough to hold out until Roger returned to command support. Yet the castle surrendered two days, most likely for political expediency. The loss of the castle was temporary (Bigod made peace with the regents of John's son Henry III in 1217) but Roger seems to have retired from public life after this time. He died in 1221, his lands intact, the Bigod powerhouse secured and himself a respected figure.

Framlingham Castle, Bigod’s main seat
Around Christmas 1181, Roger married Ida, apparently Ida de Tosny (or Ida de Toesny),[2] and by her had a number of children including:

Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk who married in 1206/1207, Maud, a daughter of William Marshal
William Bigod
Ralph Bigod
Roger Bigod
Margery, married William de Hastings
Mary Bigod, married Ralph fitz Robert[3]
Many historians, including Marc Morris,[4] have speculated that the couple had a third daughter, Alice, who married Aubrey de Vere IV, Earl of Oxford as his second wife. If so, the marriage would have been well within the bounds of consanguinity, for the couple would have been quite closely related, a daughter of the second earl of Norfolk being first cousin once removed to the second earl of Oxford.

Roger Bigod in fiction
Roger Bigod and his wife Ida De Tosny are the main characters in Elizabeth Chadwick's The Time of Singing (Sphere, 2008), published in the USA as For the King's Favor. They appear as minor characters in other of her books set at the same time, notably To Defy a King, which concerns the marriage of their son Hugh to Maud, a daughter of William Marshal. As Bigot, Bigod also appears as a character in the play King John by William Shakespeare.

References
Bartlett, Robert C. (2000). England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-19-822741-8.
For Ida's ancestry, see "Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 9: Summary" and Marc Morris's The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
S. D. Church, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Morris, Marc (2005). The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century (illustrated ed.). Boydell. ISBN 9781843831648.
Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmensis, Vol. 13
Morris, Marc. The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century (2005)
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Hugh Bigod
Earl of Norfolk
1177–1221Succeeded by
Hugh Bigod
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Event: Bullet 1215 MAGNA CHARTA SURETY Note:
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,Hugh, his successor.William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property.Thomas.Margery, m. to William de Hastings.Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford.Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham.The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk]----------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.)

Hugh Le BIGOD Earl of Norfolk b: ABT 1185 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
William Le BIGOD b: ABT 1188 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
Thomas Le BIGOD b: ABT1190 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
Alice (Adeliza) BIGOD b: ABT 1192 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
Margaret (Margery) BIGOD b: ABT 1194 in , Norfolk, England
Mary BIGOD b: ABT 1196 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
Roger Le BIGOD b:ABT 1198 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
Ralph BIGOD b: ABT 1201 in Thetford, Norfolk, England

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