Hugh (I) Bigod, earl of Norfolk

1st earl of Norfolk

Events

Date of Birth: perhaps about 1095.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (9:579).

Date of Death: in 1176 or 1177, before 9 March 1177.

Place of Death: on pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

The date and place are given by Wareham (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Thetford Priory.

The place is given by Wareham (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Roger (I) Bigod (died 1107), sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.

This relationship is given by Wareham (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 175), and by the Complete Peerage (9:579).

Mother: Alice de Tosny.

This relationship is given by Wareham (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 175). The Complete Peerage (9:579) states that Hugh was presumably William’s brother of the half-blood.

Spouse: Juliana de Vere. The marriage was annulled.

This relationship is given by Wareham (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 175), and by the Complete Peerage (9:585).

Spouse: Gundreda, daughter of Roger, earl of Warwick.

This relationship is given by Wareham (ODNB), by Crouch (p. 120), by Keats-Rohan (p. 175), and by the Complete Peerage (9:585), which calls Gundreda “apparently” the daughter of Roger.

Children (by Juliana):

Roger (II) Bigod, second earl of Norfolk, married Ida.

Children (by Gundreda):

Hugh Bigod.

William Bigod married Margaret, daughter of Robert de Sutton.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Hugh Bigod” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Church, S.D. “Bigod, Roger (II), second earl of Norfolk (c. 1143-1211)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. May 2006).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Crouch, David. The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (Pearson, 2000).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Wareham, A.F. “Bigod, Hugh (1), first earl of Norfolk (d. 1176/7)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).