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Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk & Surrey
Also Known As: "Matilda"
Birth September 1192 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Died March 27, 1248 in Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales Place of Burial: Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, England
Immediate Family:Daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of Pembroke Wife of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk; William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey and Walter de Dunstanville Mother of Matilda le Bigod; Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk; Isabel Fitzgeoffrey; Hugh Bigod, Chief Justice of England; John Bigod and 7 others Sister of William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke; Gilbert le Marshall, 4th Earl of Pembroke (Knight Templar); Isabel Marshall of Pembroke; Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke and 4 others
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HUGH LE BIGOD, 5th Earl of Norfolk, hereditary Steward of the Household, hereditary Warden of Romford Forest, son and heir.
He married probably before Lent 1207 MAUD MARSHAL, eldest daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed "Strongbow"), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry].
They had four sons,
1. Roger, Knt. [6th Earl of Norfolk],
2. Hugh, Knt.,
3. Ralph, Knt., and possibly
4. William,
and one daughter,
5. Isabel.
In 1215 he and his father joined the confederacy of the barons against the king. Both father and son were selected to be one of the twenty-five barons elected to guarantee the observance of Magna Carta, signed by King John 15 June 1215. In consequence, Hugh and his father were among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. He made homage for the Earldom of Norfolk 2 August 1221. In the period, 1221-5, he granted the homage and service of Hervey the baker and the tenement he held in Heveningharn, Suffolk to Sibton Abbey, Suffolk. In the same period, he granted the manor of Stockton, Norfolk to Hamo Lenveise. In the same period, he granted land in Mettingham, Suffolk to John Fitz Augustine.
HUGH LE BIGOD, 5th Earl of Norfolk, died between 11 Feb. and 18 Feb. 1224/5. In May 1225 his widow, Maud, granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod.
Maud married (2nd) before 13 October 1225 (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 6th Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 8], son and heir of Hamelin, 5th Earl of Surrey, Vicomte of Touraine, by Isabel, daughter and heiress of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 7 for his ancestry].
They had one son,
1. John, Knt. [7th Earl of Surrey],
and one daughter,
2. Isabel.
In 1226-7 Mary daughter of William de Newmarch, of Cateby, Yorkshire, granted to Maud Bigot, countess of Warenne and Norfolk, the hermitage of St. Margaret's, Cateby on the Don, with land in Eadrnunde croft, and common of pasture for the cattle of the hermitage, rendering yearly to the grantor at Easter white gloves. In 1227 he joined the Earl of Cornwall at Stamford in his revolt against the king, but at Christmas was with the king at York. In 1229 he was about the make a voyage on the king's service. He was heir in 1234 to his sister, Isabel de Warenne, widow of Gilbert de l'Aigle. In 1236 he acted as Butler at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence, in place of his son-in-law, Hugh, Earl of Arundel. In 1238 he was cited to appear before Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, because mass has been celebrated in the earl's hall at Grantham, Lincolnshire. SIR WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 6th Earl of Surrey, died testate in London 27 May 1240, and was buried in the priory church of Lewes, Sussex. In the period, 1240-6 his widow, Maud, granted a tenement in Thorne, Yorkshire to Richard de Otley her chaplain. In 1241 she granted Sir Adam de Newmarch and his heirs a water-course and ditch in Balne, Yorkshire from Flaxcleyker to the Dike to be 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep. In the period, 1241-5, she granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod. Maud was co-heiress in 1245 to her brother, Anselm Marshal, 9th Earl of Pembroke, by which she inherited the marshalcy of England and honour of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. In 1246-8 she confirmed the union of Kilkenny Abbey with Duiske Abbey. In 1246-8 she granted three silver marks of annual rent to St. George's Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk.
Maud, Marshal of England, Countess of Norfolk and Warenne, died 27 (or 29) March 1248.
Children of Hugh le Bigod, by Maud Marshal:
i. ROGER LE BIGOD, Knt., 6th Earl of Norfolk, hereditary Steward of the Household, hereditary Warden of Romford Forest, Chief Justice Itinerant in cos. Essex and Hertford, 1234, Marshal of England, 1246 (in right of his mother), Warden of the Town and Castle of Tulac, 1249, Warden of the Coast of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1257, Privy Councillor, 1258, Joint Guardian of England, 1259, Constable of Colchester and Orford Castles, son and heir, born about 1209. He may have been the unnamed son of Hugh le Bigod who was held hostage by King John during the civil war of 1215-17, and whose capture perhaps occurred when Framlingham was surrendered to royalist forces in March 1216. He married at Alnwick, Northumberland 1 June 1225 ISABEL OF SCOTLAND, daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots, by Ermengarde, daughter of Richard de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont [see SCOTLAND 4 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. While still under age, he entered into his inheritance in 1228. He was knighted by King Henry III at Gloucester in 1233. He unsuccessfully disputed Simon de Montfort's claim to the Stewardship at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor. In 1242 he served the king in the early part of the disastrous campaign in Poitou. In 1245 he was chief of the English delegation to the Council of Lyons, and chief of the plenipotentiarires to treat of peace between the Emperor and the Pope. The same year he repudiated his wife, nominally on the ground of consanguinity. He was compelled by ecclesiastical sentence to take her back in 1253. The king confirmed his mother's commission of the marshalcy to him in 1246. In 1253 he witnessed a sentence of excommunication and anathema against violators of the liberties of the church and of the realm. In 1254 he brought over the king's message to the Grand Council for a supply of money. In 1257 he was member of an abortive embassy to France to demand certain rights. In 1258 he served as one of the ambassadors to attend the conference at Cambray. His wife, Isabel, appears to have been living in Gloucestershire in October 1263. Her exact date of death is unknown, but she was buried in the Black Friars, London. In 1270 he wrote the king asking him to allow Roger, son of his brother Hugh, to be his attorney as Marshal. SIR ROGER LE BIGOD, 6th Earl of Norfolk, died 3 (or 4) July 1270, and was buried 10 July at Thetford, Norfolk. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 510-511 (Marshal-Bigod ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 478; 5 (1825): 744 (charter of Isabel d'Aubeney, Countess of Arundel; charter witnessed by her brothers,
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1192 - 1248 (55 years)
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