John (Bigod) le Bigod (abt. 1245 - bef. 1305)

Born about 1245 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Isabel (Unknown) Bigod — married before 1290 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 18 Mar 1305 before about age 60 in Norfolk, England [uncertain]

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John le Bigod is a descendant of Magna Carta surety barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod (see text below).

Biography

John le Bigod, son and heir of Ralph le Bigod, Knt. of Settrington, Yorkshire, by Bertha Ferrers, was born about 1245 (of age in 1269).^[1][2]

John married first to an unidentified wife.^[1] The date and place of their marriage is unknown. They had one son:

• Ralph, Knt.^[1] (see Research Note, below)

John married second, before 1290, Isabel _______.^[1] They had two sons:

• John, Knt.^[1]
• Roger, Knt., died 17 April 1362, married Joan ____ and had issue^[1]

Sir John Le Bigod died shortly before 18 March 1305 and his widow, Isabel, died before 12 September 1311.^[1]

Research Note

Property

William de Ferrers "died in the thirty-first of this reign (1247), and was succeeded in the earldom of Derby by William, his eldest son; but, by a deed of gift, the manor of Bugbrooke passed to Hugh, his younger brother, who in the thirty-fifth of the same reign (1251) obtained a grant of free warren to himself and his heirs in all his demesne lands here. From this lord the manor of Bugbrooke descended to his daughter Cecilia, the wife of Geoffrey de Beaumont, who in the sixth of Edward I. (1278) levied a fine of it. In the ninth of Edward II. (1316), Ralph Bigott [son of John], a descendant of Bertha, sister of Hugh Earl of Derby, was certified to be lord of Bugbrooke. The manor soon after reverted to the family of Ferrers, with whom it continued till the twenty-eighth of Henry VI. (1450), when Sir William de Ferrers of Charteley, Knight, dying, left it to Anne, his daughter, afterwards married to Walter Devereux, Esq."^[3]

"In 1278 Godfrey de Beaumont and Cecily his wife granted the manor of Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire to John le Bigod, who gave it back to them for their lives and the lives of their heirs, with reversion to John and his heirs."^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011, vol. I, pages 49-50, ASKE 4, John le Bigod.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. I, page 165, ASKE 9, John Bigod.
3. ↑ Francis Whellan & Co. History, Topography, and Directory of Northamptonshire. (London: Whitttaker & Co., 1874). Online at Google Books, page 302.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2011). See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013). See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed and approved for the Magna Carta Project on 2 May 2020 by Thiessen-117.

John le Bigod is a descendant of Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger Bigod in trails badged by the Magna Carta Project to the following Gateway Ancestors:

• Charles Chauncy (MCA I:421-425 CHAUNCY): trail was badged in 2015 and re-reviewed in December 2022-January 2023. See the trail HERE.
• Harlakenden Gateways (Mabel and Roger). See the trail HERE.

John le Bigod also appears in unbadged trails (needing further development) to the following Gateways:

• William Bladen: trail has not yet been developed by the Magna Carta Project.
• Elizabeth Bosvile (MCA I:261-265 BOSVILE): portions of this trail need further development. The trails are set out HERE.
• Lightfoot Gateways (John and Philip Lightfoot) (Royal Ancestry I:164-171 ASKE): needs development. The trail is set out HERE.
• William Wentworth (MCA I:261-262 BOSVILE): trail needs further research and development and is detailed HERE.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".