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| | The Bigods or Bigots, earls of Norfolk - Genealogy on Pat Patterson's Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The first person who, bearing the name of Bigod or Bigot, appears in history is Robert le Bigod, a poor knight, who gained the favour of William, duke of Normandy, by discovering to him the intended treachery of William, count of Mortain. |
 | | Roger Bigod is not traced in English records before 1079, but by this time he may have been endowed with the forfeited estates of Ralph de Guader, earl of Norfolk, whose downfall took place in 1074. |
 | | It is to be observed, however, that on 1 March of that year his son Roger appealed to the king on a dispute with his stepmother, Hugh being then dead, and that the date of his death is fixed 'ante caput jejunii,' i.e. |
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