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Joan Bigod

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Death: September 09, 1398
England (United Kingdom)
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Daughter of Sir Roger Bigod, Kt. and Joan Bigod
Wife of William de Chauncy
Mother of John Chauncey
Sister of Sir John Bigod, Sr., Kt., of Settrington and Isabel Fauconberg

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About Joan Bigod

  • 'The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of ... By Charles Henry Browning
  • The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of ... By Charles Henry Browning
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  • 4. SIR JOHN BIGOD, second son, and heir at law of his elder brother, Roger Bigod, the last Earl of Norfolk, who d.s.p. 1307. Sir John was unjustly deprived of his inheritance by Earl Roger making a complete surrender of his
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  • honors and estates to the crown. He had by his wife, whose name has not been preserved:
    • 5. ROGER BIGOD, lord of Settrington, youngest son, whose daughter:
      • ' 6. JOAN BIGOD, m. Sir William Chauncy, the last feudal Baron of Skirpenbeck, in Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of Thomas de Chauncy, lord of the manors of Skirpenbeck, Willington, Thoralby, etc., who, in 1358, paid twenty marks for "leave to enfeoff William, primo gentium, and Johannam, daughter of Roger Bygot," with rectine, lands, etc., in Thoralby and Skirpenbeck, and the next year he did enfeoff William and Joan with a part of the manor of Skirpenbeck. Sir William obtained license, 1399, to alienate Skirpenbeck and to purchase estates in Stepney, Middlesex, and received from Richard II. confirmation of his charter and liberties. Sir William de Chauncy and Joan had:
        • 7. JOHN CHAUNCY, of Stepney, near London, eldest son, who, dying in February, 1444-5, had issue by his wife Margery, or Margaret, daughter and coheiress of William Gifford, of Gedleston:
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Joan Bigod's Timeline

1398
September 9, 1398
England (United Kingdom)
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