Monarch Henry III Role Justiciar Succeeded by Hugh le Despencer Died 1266 | Political party Barons Spouse Joan de Stuteville Name Hugh Bigod Parents Maud Marshal | |
Preceded by (Stephen de Segrave) Vacant from 1234 Relations Grandfather: William "the Elder" Marshall, 4th Earl of Pembroke Children Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk Grandparents William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke Great-grandparents Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, John Marshal, Aoife MacMurrough | ||
Hugh Bigod (c. 1211 – 1266) was Justiciar of England from 1258 to 1260. He was a younger son of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk.
In 1258 the Provisions of Oxford established a baronial government of which Hugh's elder brother Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk was a leading member, and Hugh was appointed Chief Justiciar. He also had wardship of the Tower of London, and, briefly, of Dover Castle. But at the end of 1260 or in early 1261 he resigned these offices, apparently due to dissatisfaction with the new government. Thus in 1263 he joined the royalists, and was present on that side at the Battle of Lewes. That battle took place by a village called Fletching, north of Lewes. Hugh escaped but the King and his son, Prince Edward, were taken prisoner.
Marriage and issue
Bigod married, before 5 February 1244, Joan de Stuteville (d. before 6 April 1276), widow of Hugh Wake of Bourne, Lincolnshire, and daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Stuteville by Dervorguille, daughter of Roland Fitz Uchtred, Lord of Galloway, by whom he had four sons and four daughters:
There is no contemporary evidence for the assertion, first recorded in the seventeenth century, that Bigod had an earlier wife called Joanna Burnard (or Burnet or Burnell); if indeed a Hugh Bigod married Joanna, it probably was his father that did so.