Hugh Bigod (Justiciar)

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Hugh Bigod
Chief Justiciar of England
In office 1258 – 1260^[1]
Monarch	Henry III
Preceded by	(Stephen de Segrave) Vacant from 1234
Succeeded by	Hugh le Despencer

Born	c. 1215
Died	before 7 May 1266
Political party	Barons
Spouse	Joan de Stuteville
Relations	Grandfather: William "the Elder" Marshall, 4th Earl of Pembroke
Children	Roger le Bigod^[2]

Hugh Bigod (c.1211-1266) was Justiciar of England from 1258 to 1260.^[3] He was a younger son of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk.

In 1258 the Provisions of Oxford established a baronial government of which Hugh's elder brother Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk was a leading member, and Hugh was appointed Chief Justiciar. He also had wardship of the Tower of London, and, briefly, of Dover Castle. But at the end of 1260 or in early 1261 he resigned these offices, apparently due to dissatisfaction with the new government. Thus in 1263 he joined the royalists, and was present on that side at the Battle of Lewes.

In 1243 Hugh married Joan de Stuteville, and together they had at least eight children. Their eldest son Roger, subsequently became Earl of Norfolk.^[4] There is no contemporary evidence for the assertion, first recorded in the seventeenth century, that he had an earlier wife called Joanna Burnard (or Burnet or Burnell); if indeed a Hugh Bigod married Joanna, it probably was his father that did so.

[edit] Sources

M. Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century, pp. 54-5

^ TITLE OF "JUSTICIAR" (PRIME MINISTER) (html). Baronial Order of Magna Charta. Retrieved on 2008-02-15.
^ Hugh le Bigod, Chief Justiciar of England (html). My Lines. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.
^ TITLE OF "JUSTICIAR" (PRIME MINISTER) (html). Baronial Order of Magna Charta. Retrieved on 2008-02-15.
^ Hugh le Bigod, Chief Justiciar of England (html). My Lines. Retrieved on 2008-02-27.

Political offices
Preceded by Vacant from 1234 (Stephen de Segrave)	Chief Justiciar 1258-1260	Succeeded by Hugh le Despencer
Preceded by Richard de Grey	Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1259–1260	Succeeded by Nicholas de Croill