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28: 215: 207:. Bigod was away, but Framlingham's garrison has 26 knights, 20 sergeants-at-arms, 7 crossbowmen, 1 chaplain and 3 others, perhaps enough to hold out until Roger returned to command support. Yet the castle surrendered two days, most likely for political expediency. The loss of the castle was temporary (Bigod made peace with the regents of John's son 203:, and his name and that of his son and heir Hugh II appear among the twenty-five barons who were to ensure the king's adherence to the terms of that document. The pair were excommunicated by the pope in December 1215, and in 1216 John marched to East Anglia with a force of mercenaries and laid siege to Roger's seat of 168:
confirmed him in his earldom and other honours, and also sent him as an ambassador to France in the same year. Roger inherited his father's office as royal steward. He took part in the negotiations for the release of Richard from prison, and after the king's return to England became a
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in 1217) but Roger seems to have retired from public life after this time. He died in 1221, his lands intact, the Bigod powerhouse secured and himself a respected figure.
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Many historians, including Marc Morris, have speculated that the couple had a third daughter, Alice, who married
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and his first wife, Juliana de Vere. Although his father died in 1176 or 1177, Roger did not succeed to the
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until 1189 for his claim had been disputed by his stepmother for her sons by Earl Hugh in the reign of
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as his second wife. If so, the marriage would have been well within the bounds of
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on 17 October 1173, where the royalist force defeated a rebel force led by
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Arms adopted by Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, at the start of the
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Roger Bigod and his wife Ida De Tosny are the main characters in
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England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225
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Around Christmas 1181, Roger married Ida, apparently
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The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
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The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
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The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
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Age of Heraldry
Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk
Noble family
Bigod family
Ida de Tosny
Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk
Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
earldom of Norfolk
Henry II
King Richard I
justiciar
Revolt of 1173–74
Battle of Fornham
Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester
King John
John
Magna Carta
Framlingham Castle
Henry III

Ida de Tosny
Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk
Maud
William Marshal
William de Hastings
Aubrey de Vere IV
Earl of Oxford
consanguinity

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