BIGOD, Chief Justice Hugh^[1]

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• Name	BIGOD, Hugh
  Prefix	Chief Justice
  Birth	Abt 1214	Thetford, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Burial	May 1266
  Death	Bef 7 May 1266	Norfolk, England
  WAC	27 Sep 1934
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  Person ID	I53354	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BIGOD, Earl Hugh ,   b. 18 Feb 1186, Thetford, Norfolk, England Thetford, Norfolk, Englandd. 11 Feb 1225, Thetford, Norfolk, England (Age 38 years)
  Mother	MARSHALL, Countess Maud Mathilda ,   b. Sep 1192, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 27 Mar 1248, Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1207	Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales   [2]
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Bef 1206 ~SEALING_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 17 Sep 1974, PROVO.
  Family ID	F6885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	HARCOURT, Helen
  Marriage	Bosworth, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F25838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	STUTEVILLE, Joan de ,   b. Abt 1220, Thetford, Norfolk, England Thetford, Norfolk, Englandd. Bef 6 Apr 1276, Cottingham, Yorkshire, England (Age < 56 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1243	England
  Children	1 son and 1 daughter
  1. BIGOD, Earl Roger ,   b. 1245, Thetford, Norfolk, England Thetford, Norfolk, Englandd. 7 Dec 1306, Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England (Age 61 years)   2. BIGOD, Joan ,   b. Abt 1246, Thetford, Norfolk, England Thetford, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F23876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  From Medieval Lands: HUGH Bigod (-before 7 May 1266). The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, names (in order) ”Hugo Bigod primus filius, comes Norfolke et Suffolke, et Rogerus sive Radulfus secundus filius” as the children of “Hugoni le Bigod comiti Norfolke et Suffolke” and his wife[1024], although this reverses the order of birth of the two sons. Chief Justiciar of England 1257. m (after 1241) as her second husband, JOAN de Stuteville, widow of HUGH Wake, daughter of NICHOLAS [IV] de Stuteville & his wife Devorguilla of Galloway (-before 6 Apr 1276). The Testa de Nevill lists fees in Leicester, dated 1247, which include "De terris Normannorum, dicunt quod Hugo le Bigod tenet Wyrithele nomine Johanne uxoris sue que fuit uxor Hugonis Wake..."[1025]. The Chronicle of Lanercost records in 1255 a dispute involving "Hugonem de Bigod, fratrem Rogeri comitis Marescalli, pro uxore sua filia et herede dominorum de Stuteville"[1026]. A writ dated 6 Apr "4 Edw I", after the death of "Joan de Stutevill" names "Baldwin de Wake her son is her next heir and of full age", and also refers to events "after the death of Hugh le Bigot sometime her husband"[1027]. Hugh & his wife had three children. Note Hugh, an eminent lawyer, appointed Chief Justice of England by the barons in 1257. He m. 1st, Joane, dau. of Robert Burnet, by whom he had issue, Roger, successor to his uncle in the earldom; and John. He m. 2ndly, Joane, dau. of Nicholas Stuteville, and widow of --- Wake, but had no issue. His lordship feel under the baronial standard at the battle of Lewes. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk] _______________________ Hugh Bigod (d 1266), the justiciar, was the younger son of Hugh Bigod, third earl of Norfolk. Nothing is known of his early life. In 39 Henry III he was made chief ranger of Farndale Forest, Yorkshire, in consideration of a payment of 500 marks, and in the next year became governor of the castle of Pickering. In 1257 he accompained Henry in his expedition into Wales. In 1258, on the formation of the government under the Provisions of Oxford, of which his brother, Roger, d 1270, earl of Norfolk, and marshal of England, was a member, Bigod was named chief justiciar, and in that capacity had the custody of the Tower of London. He was likewise made governor of Dover Castle, but resigned that place in 1261. He must at this period have been very wealthy, for he paid 3,000 l for the wardship of Williamd de Kime, of Lincolnshire. His character as a judge has been placed high by Matthew Paris: 'legum terrae peritum, qui officium justiciariae strenue peragens nullatenus permittat jus regni vacillare.' In 1259-60 he went with two of the principal judges on a circuit to adminster justice throughout the kingdom. Soon after he became governor of Scarborough, and about the end of 1260 he resigned his office of justiciar, probably from dissatisfaction with the conduct of the barons. He afterwards, in 1263, joined the royal party, and was present on the king's side at the battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, but fled from the field. He was afterwards reappointed to the government of Pickering Castle. He died about November 1266, leaving a son Roger, who became in 1270 the fifth earl of Norfolk. Bigod was twice married: first to Joanna, daughter of Robert Burnet; and secondly to Joanna, daughter of Nicholas de Stuteville and widow of Hugh Wake. [Dictionary of National Biography II:486]Less Modified 27 August 2013 by ThomasRenehan Hugh Bigod (c. 1211 – 1266) was Justiciar of England from 1258 to 1260.[1] 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:[3] Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, who married firstly Aline Basset, and secondly Alice of Hainault, but had no issue by either marriage.[4] Ralph Bigod.[3] John Bigod, a cleric, who was heir to his elder brother, Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk.[4] Richard Bigod.[3] Elizabeth Bigod.[3] Rohese Bigod.[3] Maud Bigod.[3] Joan Bigod, who married Sir Philip de Kyme.[4] 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. Notes "TITLE OF "JUSTICIAR" (PRIME MINISTER)". Baronial Order of Magna Charta. Retrieved 2008-02-15. "Hugh le Bigod, Chief Justiciar of England". My Lines. Retrieved 2008-02-27. Richardson I 2011, p. 203. Richardson I 2011, pp. 203-5. References Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373. M. Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century, pp. 54–5

  
  

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  [S20] State of California - Department of Health, California, Los Angeles, ; Certified Abstract of Birth - 1977 - Larson, Tricia D, (Tricia D Larson certified abstract of birth, state file no. 19-0732955, local registration district no. O102898). [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. Maud Marshall; Female; Birth: About 1192 Of, Pembroke, Pembroke, Wales; Death: 27 MAR 1248; Father: William Marshall; Mother: Isabel de Clare; Spouse: Hugh Bigod; Marriage: 1207; Sealing to Spouse: 01 FEB 1950 Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho; Film Number: 458816 Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church Search performed using PAF Insight on 27 Sep 2004