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| Notes for Roger DE BIGOD , Earl of Norfolk | ||||||||||
| "One of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta. Steward of the Household of Richard I and one of the four earls who carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head at his second coronation. The Complete Peerage vol.IX,pp.586-589."149 "The following is an excerpt from Richard Thomson: An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John, London, 1829; Pages 279 – 280: "'Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, was the son of Hugh, Steward to the Kings Henry I. and II., who was descended from Roger Bigod, or Bigot, who in the time of William I. held several Manors in Norfolk; 6 Lordships in Essex; and and 117 in Sufolk. Camden, in his Remains , Lond. 1636, 4to. page 123, states the name to be Norman, signifying Superstitious, or a Bigot; a word of which the Etymology remains yet uncertain, though it is allowed to have been adopted from that language. "'Camden adds, that the people of France used to call the Normans Bigods, because at every other word they would swear by God; and hence the family of Bigod coming from Normandy,was known by this national characteristic name. "'In 1189, the 1st of Richard I., a charter was issued, dated Westminster, Nov. 97th by which Roger Bigod was constituted Earl of Norfolk the office of Steward was also confirmed to him, to gether with several Lordships, for all which he gave the King the sum of 1000 marks or �660 13s. 4d. "'In the 15th year of the same King, he attended him into Poictou; in 1215 he was one of the Baronial party which exacted from him the Great Charter; and was appointed one of the 25 Securities of that instrument, for which he was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III.'"153 | ||||||||||
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