Emma Cuckeney1

F, #4171

Marriage* Principal=Thomas de Cuckeney1 

Family

Thomas de Cuckeney
Child

Last Edited9 Mar 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

William de Valognes1

M, #4172, d. 1219

Father*Philip de Valognes1 d. 1215
William de Valognes|d. 1219|p140.htm#i4172|Philip de Valognes|d. 1215|p141.htm#i4210||||Robert Valognes||p141.htm#i4208|Agnes Valognes||p141.htm#i4209|||||||

Marriage* 1 
Death*1219 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Hugh IV de Gournay1

M, #4173, b. before 1096, d. 1180

Father*Gerard de Gournay1 d. 8 May 1096
Mother*Edith de Warenne1
Hugh IV de Gournay|b. b 1096\nd. 1180|p140.htm#i4173|Gerard de Gournay|d. 8 May 1096|p140.htm#i4175|Edith de Warenne||p126.htm#i3780|Hugh I. d. Gournay|b. b 1044\nd. 1110|p140.htm#i4176|Basilia de Fleitel||p140.htm#i4177|William de Warenne|d. 24 Jun 1088|p101.htm#i3007|Gundred (?)|b. c 1051\nd. 27 May 1085|p101.htm#i3008|

Birth*before 1096 1 
Marriage* Principal=Melesinde de Coucy Gournay/1 
Death*1180 1 

Family

Melesinde de Coucy Gournay/
Children

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Gerard de Gournay1

M, #4175, d. 8 May 1096

Father*Hugh III de Gournay1 b. b 1044, d. 1110
Mother*Basilia de Fleitel1
Gerard de Gournay|d. 8 May 1096|p140.htm#i4175|Hugh III de Gournay|b. b 1044\nd. 1110|p140.htm#i4176|Basilia de Fleitel||p140.htm#i4177|Hugh I. d. Gournay|b. 1026\nd. 1074|p140.htm#i4178||||Gerard d. Fleitel||p140.htm#i4179|Anonyma d' Evereux||p140.htm#i4180|

Birth* of Caistor, by Yarmouth, Norfolk, England1 
Marriage* 1st=Edith de Warenne1,2 
Death*8 May 1096 Holy Land1 

Family

Edith de Warenne
Children

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 158-1.

Hugh III de Gournay1

M, #4176, b. before 1044, d. 1110

Father*Hugh II de Gournay1 b. 1026, d. 1074
Hugh III de Gournay|b. b 1044\nd. 1110|p140.htm#i4176|Hugh II de Gournay|b. 1026\nd. 1074|p140.htm#i4178||||Hugh I. d. Gournay||p205.htm#i6145||||||||||

Birth*before 1044 1 
Marriage* Principal=Basilia de Fleitel1 
Death*1110 Holy Land1 

Family

Basilia de Fleitel
Children

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Basilia de Fleitel1

F, #4177

Father*Gerard de Fleitel1
Mother*Anonyma d' Evereux1
Basilia de Fleitel||p140.htm#i4177|Gerard de Fleitel||p140.htm#i4179|Anonyma d' Evereux||p140.htm#i4180|||||||Robert d' Evereux|b. c 964\nd. 1037|p113.htm#i3373|Herleva (?)|b. 968|p113.htm#i3374|

Marriage* Principal=Hugh III de Gournay1 
Burial* Bec, Normandy, France1 

Family

Hugh III de Gournay b. b 1044, d. 1110
Children

Last Edited13 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Hugh II de Gournay1

M, #4178, b. 1026, d. 1074

Father*Hugh I de Gournay1
Hugh II de Gournay|b. 1026\nd. 1074|p140.htm#i4178|Hugh I de Gournay||p205.htm#i6145||||Renaud d. Gournay||p205.htm#i6146|Alberada Gournay||p205.htm#i6147|||||||

Birth*1026 1 
Marriage* 1 
Death*1074 Battle of Cardiff1 

Family
Children

Last Edited9 Mar 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Gerard de Fleitel1

M, #4179

Marriage* Principal=Anonyma d' Evereux1 

Family

Anonyma d' Evereux
Children

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 184-1.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 104.

Anonyma d' Evereux1

F, #4180

Father*Robert d' Evereux1 b. c 964, d. 1037
Mother*Herleva (?)1 b. 968
Anonyma d' Evereux||p140.htm#i4180|Robert d' Evereux|b. c 964\nd. 1037|p113.htm#i3373|Herleva (?)|b. 968|p113.htm#i3374|Richard I. of Normandy "the Fearless"|b. 933\nd. 20 Nov 996|p91.htm#i2708|Gunnora (?)|d. 1031|p147.htm#i4391|||||||

Marriage* Principal=Gerard de Fleitel1 

Family

Gerard de Fleitel
Children

Last Edited4 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 104.

Rodulf de Warenne1

M, #4181, b. circa 998

Marriage* Principal=Beatrix de Crepon2 
Birth*circa 998 3 
Marriage*before 1059 Principal=Emma de St. Martin3,4 
Note He was said to be filius Episcopi (son of a bishop), but it was disproved that he was son of Hugh, Bishop of Coutances2 
Name Variation Rodulf de Warenne1 
Name Variation Ralph de Warren3 
Note His patron was Rodulf de Warenne, Principal=William de Braose5 
Event-Miscbefore 1035 It was said he held lands outside the walls of Rouen and upriver on the Seine from that city4 
Living1074 2 

Family

Beatrix de Crepon
Child

Last Edited5 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 266.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 265.
  3. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 258.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 39.

Emma de St. Martin1

F, #4182

Marriage*before 1059 Principal=Rodulf de Warenne1,2 

Last Edited24 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 258.

William FitzAlan1

M, #4183, b. 1105, d. 1160

Father*Alan FitzFleald1 b. c 1078, d. c 1114
Mother*Ameline FitzWaryn1
William FitzAlan|b. 1105\nd. 1160|p140.htm#i4183|Alan FitzFleald|b. c 1078\nd. c 1114|p140.htm#i4188|Ameline FitzWaryn||p140.htm#i4189|Fleald (?)||p112.htm#i3354|Gwenla f. G. (?)||p160.htm#i4775|Warine (?)||p140.htm#i4192|Amicia Montgomery||p140.htm#i4193|

Of Oswestry, Shropshire, England2 
Birth*1105 1 
Marriage* Principal=Christiana (?)1 
Marriage* 1st=Isabel de Say1,2 
Death*1160 2 
DNB* William fitz Alan (c.1105-1160), baron, was the son of Alan son of Flaald (d. c.1114), hereditary steward of the bishops of Dol in eastern Brittany, and Avelina, daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin in Ponthieu, a Domesday tenant-in-chief in ten counties. Alan and Avelina had three sons: Jordan, who inherited the patrimony in Brittany; William, who inherited his father's rich acquisitions (which included ‘the fee of the sheriff’ of Shropshire) and was the direct ancestor of the Fitzalan earls of Arundel; and Walter (d. 1177), who took service with David I of Scotland about 1136 and became his steward, and was the direct ancestor of the Stewart kings of Scotland. William fitz Alan married c.1130 Christina, neptis (a niece or close relative) of Robert, earl of Gloucester. Their son Alan died in his father's lifetime; their daughter Christiana was married in 1170 to Hugh Pantulf of Wem. William married second c.1153 Isabella de Say, daughter and heir of Elias de Say, lord of Clun. Their son William Fitzalan, who was to be the heir to his father's lands, came of age in 1175.

The group of Breton families who had served Henry I before his accession were notably loyal to his memory. Soon after gaining the shrievalty of Shropshire on the death of Pain fitz John in 1137 William fitz Alan was one of a group of magnates who renounced their loyalty to King Stephen in 1138, concurrently with Robert, earl of Gloucester, the leader of what then became the Angevin faction in the civil war. Shrewsbury Castle was held against King Stephen in August 1138, but it fell after a short siege, and Stephen, conscious of criticisms of his leniency after earlier sieges, hanged many of the garrison, probably including William's uncle, the younger Ernulf de Hesdin. William himself escaped the siege, with his wife and children, and attached himself to the Empress Matilda after her arrival in the following year. He was with her at Winchester from March to April 1141, when she was recognized as ‘lady of the English’, and in the following July and August was with her first at Oxford (when his brother Walter was present with David, king of Scots) and then at Winchester. Writs from the empress show that she viewed him as having some authority in Shropshire in the 1140s; but that authority cannot have been great, and was to diminish. Oswestry, the centre of his barony, was lost to the Welsh by 1149, captured by Madog ap Maredudd of Powys, and Bridgnorth was in the hands of the Mortimers. The small barony of Keevil in Wiltshire, inherited by Avelina, provided a safe haven, for it was close to Devizes where the empress was based after 1142. William was also at Chester, probably in the late 1140s, where he witnessed charters of Earl Ranulf (II).

William fitz Alan survived to benefit from the Angevin succession. He immediately attached himself to Duke Henry on his arrival in 1153, and was with him at Leicester in June 1153 and at Dunstable in January 1154. When Henry (now Henry II) marched against Hugh de Mortimer in July 1155, and recaptured the castles at Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, William fitz Alan was the chief beneficiary. At Bridgnorth ‘the king restored his lands’ (Cart. Haughmond, 1371), and William took the homages of his men: a public statement of his power but a recognition also that in the anarchy his lordship had been destroyed. Oswestry was recaptured at about the same time. William fitz Alan accounted as sheriff of Shropshire from July 1155 until his death, which occurred about Easter 1160. What appears to be a deathbed grant shows him at Shrewsbury surrounded by the abbots of Haughmond, Lilleshall, and Buildwas, and the prior of Wenlock, all houses that he had supported with gifts. Haughmond Abbey was the foundation of William fitz Alan, and became the family monastery and mausoleum. He, however, was buried at Shrewsbury Abbey, within the town that was for so many years the focus of his ambition.

Edmund King
Sources

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, 12 vols. (1854–60) · M. Chibnall, The Empress Matilda (1991) · Reg. RAN, 3.130, 377–9, 461, 820–21 · U. Rees, ed., The cartulary of Haughmond Abbey (1985) · VCH Wiltshire, vol. 2 · G. W. S. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman era in Scottish history (1980) · Pipe rolls · The chronicle of John of Worcester, 1118–1140, ed. J. R. H. Weaver (1908) · J. H. Round, ‘The origin of the Stewarts’, Studies in Peerage and Family History (1901) · Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist. · J. A. Green, English sheriffs to 1154 (1990) · U. Rees, ed., The cartulary of Shrewsbury Abbey, 2 vols. (1975)
Wealth at death

lands in Shropshire farmed for £155 in 1160–61
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Edmund King, ‘William fitz Alan (c.1105-1160)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9537, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

William fitz Alan (c.1105-1160): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95373 
Occupation*1138 the Sheriff of Shropshire and Castellan of Shrewsbury on behalf of Empress Maud4 

Family 1

Isabel de Say
Child

Family 2

Christiana (?) d. b 1153
Child

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 110.
  3. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 86.

Isabel de Say1

F, #4184

Father*Ingram de Say1
Mother*(?) FitzHamon1
Isabel de Say||p140.htm#i4184|Ingram de Say||p140.htm#i4190|(?) FitzHamon||p140.htm#i4191|Picot d. Say||p178.htm#i5334|Adeloyse Say||p178.htm#i5335|||||||

Marriage* Groom=William FitzAlan1,2 
Marriage* 2nd=Geoffrey de Vere3 

Family

William FitzAlan b. 1105, d. 1160
Child

Last Edited3 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 110.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 251.

Philippa d' Evereux1

F, #4185

Marriage*before 1066 Principal=Walter d' Evereux1 

Family

Walter d' Evereux b. s 1034
Children

Last Edited13 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

William FitzAlan1

M, #4186, d. circa 1210

Father*William FitzAlan1,2 b. 1105, d. 1160
Mother*Isabel de Say1
William FitzAlan|d. c 1210|p140.htm#i4186|William FitzAlan|b. 1105\nd. 1160|p140.htm#i4183|Isabel de Say||p140.htm#i4184|Alan FitzFleald|b. c 1078\nd. c 1114|p140.htm#i4188|Ameline FitzWaryn||p140.htm#i4189|Ingram d. Say||p140.htm#i4190|(?) FitzHamon||p140.htm#i4191|

Marriage* Principal=(?) FitzHenry1 
Death*circa 1210 2 
Feudal*1166 1 Kt. fee, Principal=John le Strange3 
Event-Misc*1194 It was noted on the Pipe Roll that William Fitz Alan owed 10 marks as surety for his nephew William Pantulf, Principal=William Pantulf4 
Note*1201 He answered for Clun, Shropshire2 

Family

(?) FitzHenry
Children

Last Edited2 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 110.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 231.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 191.

(?) FitzHenry1

F, #4187

Father*Henry II Curtmantel1 b. 5 Mar 1132/33, d. 6 Jul 1189
Mother*Rosamond Clifford1 d. 1177
(?) FitzHenry||p140.htm#i4187|Henry II Curtmantel|b. 5 Mar 1132/33\nd. 6 Jul 1189|p55.htm#i1622|Rosamond Clifford|d. 1177|p135.htm#i4030|Geoffrey V. "the Fair" Plantagenet|b. 24 Nov 1113\nd. 7 Sep 1151|p55.htm#i1624|Matilda Empress of England|b. 1104\nd. 10 Sep 1167|p55.htm#i1626|Walter de Clifford|b. c 1110\nd. 1190|p135.htm#i4033|Margaret de Toeni|b. c 1109\nd. b 1185|p135.htm#i4034|

Marriage* Principal=William FitzAlan1 

Family

William FitzAlan d. c 1210
Children

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Alan FitzFleald1

M, #4188, b. circa 1078, d. circa 1114

Father*Fleald (?)2,3
Mother*Gwenla fil Griffith (?)2
Alan FitzFleald|b. c 1078\nd. c 1114|p140.htm#i4188|Fleald (?)||p112.htm#i3354|Gwenla fil Griffith (?)||p160.htm#i4775|Alan (?)|d. c 1048|p178.htm#i5330||||Gruffydd ap Llywelyn|b. c 1011\nd. 5 Aug 1063|p91.htm#i2712|Aldgyth of Mercia|d. a 1086|p91.htm#i2713|

Birth*circa 1078 Dol, Normandy, France2 
Marriage* Principal=Ameline FitzWaryn2 
Death*circa 1114 2 
Note* He obtained the Castle of Oswaldestre or Oswestry early in the reign of Henry I1 
Name Variation Alan FitzFlead2 
Note*1122 Roland Extraneus was a tenant of Alan FitzFlead and witnessed a charter of his lord to Castleacre Priory, Principal=Roland Extraneus4 

Family

Ameline FitzWaryn
Children

Last Edited29 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 110.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 85.
  4. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 231.

Ameline FitzWaryn1

F, #4189

Father*Warine (?)1
Mother*Amicia Montgomery1
Ameline FitzWaryn||p140.htm#i4189|Warine (?)||p140.htm#i4192|Amicia Montgomery||p140.htm#i4193|||||||Roger de Montgomerie|b. b 1030\nd. 27 Jul 1094|p115.htm#i3438|Mabel Talvas|b. c 1015\nd. 2 Dec 1079|p115.htm#i3439|

Marriage* Principal=Alan FitzFleald1 

Family

Alan FitzFleald b. c 1078, d. c 1114
Children

Last Edited1 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 85.

Ingram de Say1

M, #4190

Father*Picot de Say1
Mother*Adeloyse Say1
Ingram de Say||p140.htm#i4190|Picot de Say||p178.htm#i5334|Adeloyse Say||p178.htm#i5335|||||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=(?) FitzHamon1 

Family

(?) FitzHamon
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

(?) FitzHamon1

F, #4191

Marriage* Principal=Ingram de Say1 

Family

Ingram de Say
Child

Last Edited15 Oct 2004

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Warine (?)1

M, #4192

Marriage* Principal=Amicia Montgomery1 

Family

Amicia Montgomery
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Amicia Montgomery1

F, #4193

Father*Roger de Montgomerie1 b. b 1030, d. 27 Jul 1094
Mother*Mabel Talvas1 b. c 1015, d. 2 Dec 1079
Amicia Montgomery||p140.htm#i4193|Roger de Montgomerie|b. b 1030\nd. 27 Jul 1094|p115.htm#i3438|Mabel Talvas|b. c 1015\nd. 2 Dec 1079|p115.htm#i3439|Roger I. de Montgomery|d. b 7 Feb 1056|p115.htm#i3441|Joscelina de Torfulus|b. c 975\nd. a 1068|p115.htm#i3442|William I. Talvas|d. bt 1060 - 1070|p115.htm#i3443|Hildeburg (?)|d. c 1067|p115.htm#i3444|

Marriage* Principal=Warine (?)1 

Family

Warine (?)
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Maud Bigod1

F, #4194, b. circa 1084

Father*Roger Bigod1,2 b. c 1050, d. 8 Sep 1107
Mother*Adelaide (?)2
MotherBerengeve de Bayeux1
Maud Bigod|b. c 1084|p140.htm#i4194|Roger Bigod|b. c 1050\nd. 8 Sep 1107|p140.htm#i4195|Adelaide (?)||p511.htm#i15328|Roger Bigod|b. c 1036|p149.htm#i4468|(?) de St. Sauveur|b. c 1040|p149.htm#i4469|||||||

Birth*circa 1084 of Belvoir, Norfolk, England1 
Marriage* Principal=William d' Aubigny1,3,4 

Family

William d' Aubigny d. 1139
Children

Last Edited10 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 28.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 18A-22.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 7.

Roger Bigod1

M, #4195, b. circa 1050, d. 8 September 1107

Father*Roger Bigod1 b. c 1036
Mother*(?) de St. Sauveur1 b. c 1040
Roger Bigod|b. c 1050\nd. 8 Sep 1107|p140.htm#i4195|Roger Bigod|b. c 1036|p149.htm#i4468|(?) de St. Sauveur|b. c 1040|p149.htm#i4469|Robert Bigod|b. c 1015|p150.htm#i4471||||Niel (?)||p150.htm#i4472||||

Marriage* Bride=Adelaide (?)2 
Birth*circa 1050 3 
Birthcirca 1060 St. Saveur, Normandy, France1 
Marriage* Bride=Adeliza de Tony1,4 
Marriage* 1st=Berengeve de Bayeux1 
Death8 September 1107 Earsham, Bungay, Suffolk, England2 
Death*8 September 1107 Thetford, Norfolk, England1 
Burial* Abbey of Thetford, Burke incorrectly gives the name as Whetford5 
DNB* Bigod, Roger (I) (d. 1107), administrator, was probably the son of Robert Bigod, who in 1055 betrayed the rebellious plans of his lord, the count of Mortain, to Duke William and received as his reward a minor subtenancy held from the bishop of Bayeux in the Calvados region. Although Wace claimed that the Bigods' ancestor had fought at Hastings, no contemporary source supports this view, and the chronology of Roger Bigod's own life makes it very unlikely that he himself took part in the 1066 campaign. The family's later distinction probably led to this invention.

Roger Bigod first appears in 1075 when the bishop of Bayeux, perhaps seeking to enhance his power in East Anglia, granted to his subtenant Bigod a substantial share of the forfeited estates of the rebellious Earl Ralph de Gael, who had been expelled from the kingdom. From 1081 until 1086 Bigod served as sheriff of Norfolk, and the tenure of this office may have allowed him to assemble a great honour from the landholdings of Anglo-Saxon royal agents. In 1086 his East Anglian honour was valued at £430, which is the fifteenth highest valuation in Domesday, a remarkable rise from his father's state of penury in 1055. In 1087 William II removed Bigod as sheriff of Norfolk. Reacting swiftly, Bigod either seized or fortified Norwich Castle, and ordered one of his subtenants to seize the manor of Southwold from the abbey of Bury St Edmunds. These actions forced William II to recognize that he had made a mistake, and in 1091 Bigod was reappointed as sheriff of Norfolk and became a steward of the royal household. Rebellion enhanced Bigod's status, and he held both of these offices until his death.

Bigod was married twice, first to Adelaide and second to Alice de Tosny; Hugh (I) Bigod was the son of the second marriage. He founded Thetford Priory c.1104 and was a patron of Norwich Cathedral priory. On his death at Earsham in 1107 the cathedral monks of Norwich claimed that Bigod had promised his body to them before the foundation of Thetford Priory, while the monks of Thetford claimed on dubious evidence that Bigod had bequeathed his body to them. A fourteenth-century account records that the bishop resolved the dispute by taking Bigod's body from Earsham back to Norwich on a cart in the middle of the night against the pleas of the sheriff's widow and men. Whether this account can be accepted is a moot point, but a writ of 1106 confirms that the king recognized the justice of the cathedral monks' claim. At issue was probably the right to retain estates which Bigod had donated to these houses, as well as the prestige to be gained from having the tomb of such a great local ruler.

A. F. Wareham
Sources

A. Farley, ed., Domesday Book, 2 vols. (1783), vol. 2 · Reg. RAN, vols. 1–2 · Le ‘Roman de Rou’ de Wace, ed. A. J. Holden, 3 vols. (Paris, 1970–73) · A. Wareham, ‘The motives and politics of the Bigod family, c.1066–1177’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 17 (1994), 223–42 · CCC Cam., MS 329 fol. 106b
Wealth at death

£430—renders: Farley, ed., Domesday book, vol. 2
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A. F. Wareham, ‘Bigod, Roger (I) (d. 1107)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2378, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Roger (I) Bigod (d. 1107): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23786 
Occupation*1080 Sheriff of Norfolk2 
Occupationbefore 1086 Sheriff of Suffolk7 
Feudal*1086 20 Manors in Suffolk., Principal=Odo of Bayeux8 
Event-Misc1088 He went into rebellion7 
Event-Misc1091 He witnessed a royal charter as Steward7 
Event-Misc*1103 Thetford, Norfolk, England, He founded the Abbey of Thetford5 

Family 1

Adelaide (?)
Children

Family 2

Adeliza de Tony b. c 1069
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 27.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 18A-22.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 155-1.
  5. [S342] Sir Bernard Burke, Extinct Peerages, p. 53.
  6. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  7. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 28.
  8. [S341] Lewis C. Loyd, Anglo-Norman Families, p. 14.
  9. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 114.

Adeliza de Tony1

F, #4196, b. circa 1069

Father*Robert de Todenai1,2 d. 4 Aug 1088
Mother*Adela de Belvoir1
Adeliza de Tony|b. c 1069|p140.htm#i4196|Robert de Todenai|d. 4 Aug 1088|p140.htm#i4197|Adela de Belvoir||p106.htm#i3159|Ralph I. de Tony|b. b 970|p150.htm#i4480||||Osulf f. F. (?)||p149.htm#i4455||||

Birth*circa 1069 1 
Marriage* 2nd=Roger Bigod1,2 
Name Variation Todenai3 
Name Variation Alice2 
Living*1130 2 
Living1136 4 

Family

Roger Bigod b. c 1050, d. 8 Sep 1107
Children

Last Edited10 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 155-1.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 1.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 27.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 28.

Robert de Todenai1

M, #4197, d. 4 August 1088

Father*Ralph II de Tony2 b. b 970
Robert de Todenai|d. 4 Aug 1088|p140.htm#i4197|Ralph II de Tony|b. b 970|p150.htm#i4480||||Ralph I. de Tony|d. a 975|p150.htm#i4483||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=Adela de Belvoir2 
Death*4 August 1088 1,3 
Burial* Chapter House, Belvoir Castle1 
Name Variation Tosny1 
Name Variation Robert de Tony2 
Name Variation Toeni4 
Title* Lord of Belvoir4 
Note*1066 Supposedly Belvoir Mound and all that land visible therefrom was given in 1066 by William the Conqueror to his standard bearer, Robert de Todenai.1 

Family 1
Child

Family 2

Adela de Belvoir
Children

Last Edited28 Aug 2005

Citations

  1. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 1.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 240.
  4. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 155-1.

Iuchdelb (?)1

F, #4198

Father*Cearnachanhui Gairbita (?)1
Iuchdelb (?)||p140.htm#i4198|Cearnachanhui Gairbita (?)||p140.htm#i4199||||||||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=Morough O'Brien1 

Family

Morough O'Brien
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Cearnachanhui Gairbita (?)1

M, #4199

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Theobald FitzWalter1

M, #4200, b. circa 1160, d. between 4 August 1205 and 14 February 1206

Father*Hervey Walter1
Mother*Maud de Valoignes1,2
Theobald FitzWalter|b. c 1160\nd. bt 4 Aug 1205 - 14 Feb 1206|p140.htm#i4200|Hervey Walter||p141.htm#i4203|Maud de Valoignes||p141.htm#i4204|Hervey Walter||p141.htm#i4205||||Theobald d. Valoignes||p141.htm#i4206||||

Birth*circa 1160 West Dereham, Norfolk, England1 
Marriage*before 1200 1st=Maud le Vavasour1,2 
Death*between 4 August 1205 and 14 February 1206 1,3 
Burial Wotheny Abbey, Limerick, Ireland4 
Event-Misc*1185 Ireland, accompanied Prince John (later King) to Ireland2 
Feudal*before 1189 the fief of Arklow4 
Title*before May 1192 Ireland, Butler of Ireland, conferred by King John2 
Event-Misc1194 King Richard granted him the Wapentake of Amounderness and the lordship of Preston, Lancashire4 
Occupation*between 1194 and 1199 Lancashire, England, was Sheriff of Lancashire2 
Event-Misc1197 He was a justice itinerant4 
Name Variation1199 Theobald Butler2 
Event-Misc1200 Nenagh, Tipperary, Ireland, He founded the Abbey of Nenagh2 
Event-Misc1205 Wotheny, Limerick, Ireland, He founded the Abbey of Wotheny2 
Event-Misc Cockersand, Lancashire, England, He founded the Abbey of Cockersand2 
Event-Misc Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland, He founded the Monastery of Arklow2 

Family

Maud le Vavasour b. c 1187, d. b 1226
Children

Last Edited15 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S287] G. E. C[okayne], CP, II - 447.
  3. [S287] G. E. C[okayne], CP, II - 448.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 46.
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