1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod

1095 - 1175  (80 years)

• Name	Hugh Bigod  [1]
  Title	1st Earl of Norfolk
  Birth	1095	Norfolk, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Mar 1175	Thetford, Norfolk, England   [1]
  Burial	Thetford, Norfolk, England   [1]
  Person ID	I6173	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk Roger le Bigod,   b. 1045, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France d. 8 Sep 1107, Suffolk, England (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Heiress of Belvoir Adeliza de Toeni,   b. 1064, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France d. 1135, Leicestershire, England (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1079	Belvoir, Leicestershire, England
  Family ID	F2019	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Juliana de Vere,   b. 1108, Essex, England d. 1199, Thetford, Norfolk, England (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1144
  Marriage End	Bef 1156
  	The marriage was dissolved before 1156
  Children	1. 2nd Earl of Norfolk Roger Bigod,   b. 1144, Norwich, Norfolk, England d. 1220, England (Age 76 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Gundred de Beaumont,   b. 1135   d. 1200 (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F1994	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1095 - Norfolk, England Death - 6 Mar 1175 - Thetford, Norfolk, England Burial - - Thetford, Norfolk, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Arms Icons & Insignia

  Arms-Bigod Bigod/Bigot Coat of Arms

  
  

  Biographies and Histories

  Bio-leBIGOD Roger (the Sheriff) Roger "the Sheriff" le Bigod

  
  

• Sources

  [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Hugh Bigod 1095-1175. Son of Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Grantesmesnel. Thetford Abbey was a Cluniac monastic house in Thetford founded in 1103 by Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk and dedicated to Our Lady. In the 13th century, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared in a vision to locals requesting the addition to the site of a Lady Chapel. During its construction, the old statue of her on the site was discovered to have a hollow in its head concealing saints' relics, and became a magnet for pilgrims. It housed the tombs of the Howard dynasty, of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset and of other early Tudor Dynasty officials. Even this could not save the priory from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and, on its closure in 1536, many tombs were removed to St Michael the Archangel, Framlingham. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48402935/hugh-bigod