Person:Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk (1)

Name	Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk
Alt Name	Roger le Bigod
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[8]	Bet 1144 and 1150 (about)	Norfolk, Englandin the north of the county
Alt Marriage	Abt Jan 1163/64	Surrey, Englandto Ida de Toeni
Marriage	Bef 1178	to Ida de Toeni
Other		Marriage Ending Status Divorce with Ida de Toeni
Other`^?`	1215	One Of The 25 Sureties Of Magna Carta.
Death^[1]	Bef 2 Aug 1221	Thetford, Norfolk, England
Burial`^?`		Thetford, Norfolk, England
Reference Number`^?`		Q3438704^?

Arms: Or, a cross gules. Roger le Bigod the Surety, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk was 15th in descent from Sveide the Viking. He had two wives, Ida de Thouy and Isabella de Warenne.

He made a gift to Dodnash Priory of a tenement and land at East Bergholt, a holding perhaps of Countess Ida's, whose possible mother Ida of Hainault received it from King Henry I, between 1189 and 1221 in Suffolk, England. He reconstituted Earl of Norfolk, and steward of the household, and at the same time obtained restitution of some manors, with grants of others, and confirmation of all his widespread demesnes, in a charter on 27 November 1189 in 1 Richard I, Westminster, England. He was was a Surety Baron for the Magna Carta, at Runnymede on 15 June 1215.

Sources for the above (or generally):

Magna Charta: The Barons and King John, online http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/magnacharta/magchrt.htm.
John S. Wurts, Magna Charta (P.O. Box 4933, Philadelphia, PA: Brookfield Publishing Company, 1954).
Douglas Richardson (e-mail address), Countess Ida Bigod - A Search for Answers in "Countess Ida Bigod - A Search for Answers", newsgroup message to soc.genealogy.medieval, 2002-04-06 13:07:36 PST. Hereinafter cited as Countess Ida Bigod.
C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms Sir Bernard Burke, compiler, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), pg. 53.
NEHGR, 10 (1856): 262, presumably this information came from an unpublished Bigod charter seen while researching in England (cited by Richardson)
Dodnash Priory Charters, pp. 73-74 (cited by Richardson)
The English Peerage (to 1790) or, a view of the Ancient and Present State of the English Nobility (genuki: UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service, 1790).

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