Chief Justice Hugh Bigod ENGLAND

   Other names for Hugh were ENGLAND Chief Justice, BIGOD Baron and ENGLAND Justiciar.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJV-VW.

   General Notes:

Baron BIGOD, Justicar or Chief Justice of ENGLAND.

Signer of Provisions of Oxford, first English Constitution 11 Jun 1258.

BOOKS
Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905, p100: "...On June 11 [1258] the magnates once more assembled, this time at Oxford. A petition of twenty-nine articles was presented, in which the abuses of the [Henry III] administration were laid bare in detail. A commission of twenty-four was appointed who were to redress the grievances of the nation, and to draw up a new scheme of government. According to the compact Henry himself selected half this body...
"...In strong contrast to these creatures of court favour were the twelve nominees of the barons. The only ecclesiastic was Walter of Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester, and the only alien was Earl Simon of Leicester. With him were three other earls Richard of Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Roger Bigod, earl marshal and Earl of Norfolk, and Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford. Those of Baronal rank were Roger Mortimer, the strongest of the marchers, Hugh Bigod, the brother of the earl marshal, John Fitz Geoffrey, Richard Grey, William Bardolf, Peter Montfort, and Hugh Despenser.
"...The twenty-four drewup a plan of reform which left little to be desired in thoroughness. The Provisions of Oxford, as the new constitution was styled, were speedily laid before the barons and adopted...For the first time in our history the king was forced to stand aside from the discharge of his undoubted functions, and suffer them to be exercised by a committee of magnates. The conception of limited monarchy, which had been foreshadowed in the early struggles of Henry's long reign, was triumphantly vindicated, and, after weary years of waiting, the baronial victors demanded more than had ever been suggested by the most free interpretation of the Great Charter..."
p102: "...[1258] The first step taken to carry out the Provisions was the oppointment of the new ministers. The barons insisted on the revival of the office of justiciar, and a strenuous and capable of chief minister was found in Hugh Bigod...The magnates of the parliament then turned against [the Poitevins] the arms they professed to have prepared against the Welsh. Headed by the new justiciar, Hugh Bigod, they besieged Wolvesey..."
p104: "...[1258] During May a strangely constituted embassy treated for peace at Paris, where Montfort and Hugh Bigodworked side by side with two of the Lusignans and Peter of Savoy. They concluded a provisional treaty in time for the negotiators to take their part in the Mad Parliament..."
p109: "...On June 14, 1261, the papal bull was read before the assembled parliament at Winchester. There Henry removed the baronial ministers and replaced them by his own friends. Chief among the sufferers was Hugh Despenser, who had succeeded Hugh Bigod as justiciar; and Bigod himself was expelled from thecustody of Dover Castle..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJV-VW.

   Marriage Information:

in , , England.

   Marriage Information:

Hugh also married Joan De STUTEVILLE, daughter of Lord Nicholas De STUTEVILLE and Devorgoil GALLOWAY, about 1243-1244 in , , England. (Joan De STUTEVILLE was born about 1220 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England, christened in Lydell, Cumberland, Yorkshire, England and died about 6 Apr 1276.)