Earl Of Norfolk & Suffolk Hugh BIGOD

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"Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl, who m. Maud, eldest dau. of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, and by her (who m. 2ndly, William Earl of Warrenne and Surrey,) had issue, I. Roger, his successor. II. Hugh, an eminent lawyer. III.Ralph, m. Berta, dau. of the Baron Furnival . . . His lordship, who was also one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta, d. in 1225 . . . " (BurkeG-53)

Surety of the Magna Carta. He was third Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk. He was born before 1195, and took part from the beginning in the Barons' Magna Charta proceedings. Not many particulars of this Baron's life have been preserved, as he enjoyed for only a few years the title of Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and his father's estates and honors, to which he had succeeded in the 5th of King Henry III. He died four years later, in February 1224/5, having married about 1212 Maud, a sister of the Surety William Marshall. In her right, Hugh acquired the Earldom of Pembroke, and in this rank bore the royal sceptre at the coronation of King Richard

Hugh married Countess Of Norfolk Maud (Matilda) MARSHALL before 1207 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Maud (daughter of William MARSHALL and Isobel Fitzgilbert DE CLARE) was born about 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 27 Mar 1248. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Earl Of Norfolk Roger BIGOD, Earl Of Norfolk died in Deceased.
2. Isabel BIGOD was born in 1210 in Thetford, Norfolk, England; died in 1269 in France.
3. Hugh BIGOD, Justiciar Of England was born in 1216; died on 7 May 1266.
4. Sir Simon LE BIGOD was born about 1218 in Thetford, Norfolk, England; died before 1242 in Felbrigg, Erpingham, Norfolk, England.