Roger (II) Bigod, earl of Norfolk

2nd earl of Norfolk

Events

Date of Birth: about 1143.

The date is given by Church (ODNB).

Date of Death: 1221, before 2 August.

The date is given by Church (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (9:589).

Relationships

Father: Hugh (I) Bigod, first earl of Norfolk.

This relationship is given by Church (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 176), and by the Complete Peerage (9:586).

Mother: Juliana, sister of Aubrey (III) de Vere, earl of Oxford.

This relationship is given by Church (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (9:586).

Spouse: Ida.

This relationship is given by Church (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (9:589). Ida’s parents are unknown, but she seems to have been from the Tosny family. (Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 9: Norfolk.)

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Hugh (II) Bigod (died 1225), third earl of Norfolk, married Matilda Marshal.

William Bigod.

John Bigod.

Ralph Bigod.

Basilia.

Mary married Ralph fitz Robert.

Margery married William of Hastings.

Ida.

References

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).

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