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Freeman-Smith History and Ancestry
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 Abt 1060 - 1107 (47 years)
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| Name |
BIGOD Roger |
| Birth |
Abt 1060 |
Manche, Normandy, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
08 Sep 1107 |
Earsham, Norfolk, England |
| Notes |
- Roger Bigod, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk (d. 1107) was possibly the son of Robert Bigod. Concerning his possible ancestral connections see the profile for Bigod-11, sometimes suggested to be his father.
It has been claimed that Roger fought at Hastings but no contemporary account supports this claim and the details of his life makes this unlikely.
His extensive Domesday lands are the basis of the early feudal county of Framlingham (named after its chief place in Suffolk).[1] Maps and listing of his Domesday estates:
https://opendomesday.org/name/roger-bigot/
https://pase.ac.uk/domesday/person/39652/
He was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk from 1081 to 1086 and 1091 to his death in 1107.[2]
Family
It is sometimes claimed that he married twice, first to Adelaide and second to Adelisa (or Alice) de Tosny.[3]
Keats-Rohan has an entry for Roger where she writes, equating those two wives:[4]
Although he is usually credited with two wives, it is fairly clear that he was only married once, to Adelisa (q.v.), daughter and eventual heiress of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir who is traditionally viewed as mother of Hugh, his eventual heir, Cecelia (Adelisa's eventual heir) and (another) Matilda. [...] It is likely that Roger's children were born from the 1090s onwards.
Children of Roger Bigod and Alice de Tosny:[5]
William Bigod dsp bef. 1129 Heir. Died in White Ship sinking.
Humphrey Bigod dsp bef. 1129
Gunnor Bigod m. (1) Robert fitz Swein of Essex and (2) Haimo de St. Clair
Matilda Bigod m. William de Albini pincerna
Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. Inherited after his brother William died.
Cecilia Bigod m. William de Albini Brito
Sources
↑ Sanders, (1960) English Baronies, p.46
↑ A. F. Wareham,‘Bigod, Roger (I) (d. 1107)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
↑ A. F. Wareham, ‘Bigod, Hugh (I), first earl of Norfolk (d. 1176/7)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
↑ Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.396
↑ Keats-Rohan, Katherine Belvoir: The Heirs of Robert and Berengar de Tosny
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| Person ID |
I60048 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Family |
TOENI Adelisa, b. 1064, Tosny, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France d. Aft 1130, Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England (Age > 67 years) |
| Marriage |
1084 |
| Children |
| | 1. BIGOD Gunnora, b. Abt 1096, Norfolk, England d. Bef 1137 (Age < 40 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F26661 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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