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ROGNVALD, the Dane, m. Hilda and had issue:
HROLLAGER, the Dane, m. Emina, and had issue:
THURSTAN (ROLLO), the Dane, m. Gerlotte, and had issue:
ANSFRED, the Dane, had issue:
ANSFRED DE GOZ b. ca 970, had issue:
TURSTAIN DE GOZ b. Ca 1000 m. Judith Monterolier and had issue:
ROBERT BIGOD who had issue:
ROBERT BIGOD who had issue:
ROGER LE BIGOD b. ca 1060 probably Calvados, Normandy, d. 1107 Norfolk, England,buried Whetford Abbey, Norfolk, England m. 1080 Adeliza de Grantesmesnil at Carlton-Curlieu, of Hinckley, High Steward of England, and his wife, Adelhyde de Beaumont (d. 1091), daughter of the Count of Beaumont. Roger Bigod was a great Domesday tenant-in-chief in East Anglia and was the ancestor of the earls of Norfolk. He owned lands in Calvados, Normandy, but it was not until the conquest of England under William the Conqueror, that he made a fortine for himself and his descendants. His Norman overlord was Odo, bishop of Bayeaux, who held some twenty manors in Suffolk in 1086. Roger le Bigod was a feudal Baron, the first to settle in England, having lordships in Essex and Suffolk. In 1103 he founded the Abbey of Whetford in Norfolk where he was buried in 1107. Issue:
GUNNOR BIGOD b. 1083 Norwich, Norfolk, England m. 1105 at Norwich de Essex, Fitz Suein.
HUGH BIGOD, Earl of Norfolk, b. Ca 1100 Norfolk, England, d.3/1177 m. Juliana de Vere, dau of Alberic de Vere and his wife, Adeliza de Clare. Issue:
1. Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, b., 1150 Norfolk, England d. before 8/1221 m. Isabella Plantagenet, daughter of Hameline Plantagenet and his wife, Isabel de Warenne. Roger Bigod was the Lord High Steward of England, the second Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was appointed one of the ambassador to Philip of France to obtain the recovery of the Holy Land in 1151 by King Richard. In 1191 he was keeper of Hereford Castle. From 1195 to 1202 he was Chief Judge in the King s Court. In 1200 he was sent by King John as one of his messengers to summon William the Lion, King of Scotland, to do homage to him in the parliament which he was held at Lincoln, and subsequently attended King John into Poitou. However, upon his return he was won over to their cause by the rebel Barons and became one of the strongest advocates of the Charter of Liberty, for which he was excommunicated by Innocent III, the Pope.
Roger Bigod and his wife, isabella Plantagenet, had issue:
(a) Margery Bigod b. 1184 Framlingham, Suffolk, England m. ca 1205 in Norfolk, England, William de Hastings.
(b) William Bigod b. Framlington, Suffolk, England m. Margaret de Sutton.
(c) Thomas Bigod b. Framlingham, Suffolk, England.
(d) Adeliza Bigod m. Audley de Vere, Earl of Oxford, England.
(e) Mary Bigod m. Ralph FitzRobert.
(f) Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, b. 1190 Framlingham, Suffolk, England, d. 2/1224/1225 m. 1207 Maude Marshall, b. 1190 Pembroke, Wales, d. 3/27/1248 Pembroke, Wales, dau of William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke and his wife, Countess Isabel de Clare . He was one of the Sureties of the Magna Charta. Issue:
i. Isabell Bigod b. ca 1210 Norfolk, England m. (1) Gilbert de Lacy, Lord of Meath (d. 1241) and (2) in 1231 John FitzGeoffrey of Barkhamstead and Kirtling, sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234, justiciary of Ireland in 1246, son of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, justiciary of England.
ii. Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.
iii. Sir High Bigod, Justiciary m. (1) Joan Burnet, dau of Robert Burnet. (2) Joan Stuteville. Appointed chief justice of England on 6/22/1257, resigned in 1260. He d. 1266. Issue by first wife:
a. Roger Bigod
b. Sir John Bigod, Knight, last Earl of Norfolk, d. 1306. Issue: Roger Bigod, Knight.
iv. Sir Ralph Bigod, Knight, b. ca 1208 Norfolk, England, m. Lady Bertha de Furnival.
