Pg 122, 31. Roger Bigod whose parentage is not certainly known … could well have been present at the battle (of Hastings), and … his rapid rise to importance in Norfolk – otherwise difficult to account for – may have been due to his services at the time of the invasion.” At Domesday “he held great estates in Norfolk and Suffolk … and also held lands in Essex”; and was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and Steward of the Royal Household under William Rufus and Henry I.17595

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