Title 3rd Earl of Norfolk Died 1225 Tenure 1221-1225 Spouse Maud Marshal (m. 1207) | Nationality English Children Isabel Bigod Name Hugh 3rd | |
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Predecessor Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk Successor Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk Parents Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Ida de Tosny Siblings William Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury Similar People Isabel de Clare - 4th Countess, William Marshal - 1st Earl of, William Longespee - 3rd Earl o, Henry II of England, John - King of England | ||
Hugh Bigod (c. 1182 – 18 February 1225) was a member of the powerful early Norman Bigod family and was for a short time the 3rd Earl of Norfolk.
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Origins
He was born c. 1182, the eldest son of Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk by his wife Ida de Tosny.
Career
In 1215 he was one of the twenty-five sureties of Magna Carta of King John. He succeeded to his father’s estates (including Framlingham Castle) in 1221.
Marriage & progeny
In late 1206 or early 1207, Hugh married Maud Marshal (1192 - 27 March 1248), daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1147–1219), Marshal of England, by his wife Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke. They had four, or possibly five, children:
Contrary to the assertion of Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, there is no evidence for a fourth son called Simon Bigod. A man of that name appears as a witness to one of Earl Hugh's charters (Morris, HBII 2), but as the eighteenth name in a list of twenty, suggesting no close connection to the main branch of the family. He is also named among the knights who surrendered to King John at Framlingham Castle in 1216. He was a probably a descendant of Hugh or William Bigod, half-brothers to Earl Roger II Bigod.
Death
Hugh died on 18 February 1225. Very soon after Hugh's death, his widow Maud remarried William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey.
Hugh Bigod in fiction
Hugh Bigod and his wife [Mahelt] are the main characters in Elizabeth Chadwick's To Defy a King. They also appear as secondary characters in novels chronicling their parents such as The Time of Singing (UK: Sphere, 2008) published in the USA as For the King's Favor; The Greatest Knight; and The Scarlet Lion.