Hugh Bigod (c. 1211 – 1266) wasJusticiar ofEngland from 1258 to 1260.^[1] He was a younger son ofHugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk.

In 1258 theProvisions of Oxford established a baronial government of which Hugh's elder brotherRoger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk was a leading member, and Hugh was appointed ChiefJusticiar. He also had wardship of theTower of London, and, briefly, ofDover 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 theBattle of Lewes. That battle took place by a village called Fletching, north of Lewes. Hugh escaped butthe King and his son,Prince Edward, were taken prisoner.

Bigod married, before 5 February 1244, Joan de Stuteville (d. before 6 April 1276), widow of Hugh Wake ofBourne, Lincolnshire, and daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Stuteville byDervorguille, daughter of Roland Fitz Uchtred, Lord of Galloway, by whom he had four sons and four daughters:^[3]

• Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, who married firstly Aline Basset, and secondlyAlice of Hainault, but had no issue by either marriage.^[4]
• Ralph Bigod.^[3]
• John Bigod, a cleric, who was heir to his elder brother, Roger.^[4]
• Richard Bigod.^[3]
• Elizabeth Bigod.^[3]
• Rohese Bigod.^[3]
• Maud Bigod.^[3]
• Joan Bigod, who married SirPhilip de Kyme.^[4]

There is no contemporary evidence for the assertion, first recorded in the seventeenth century, that Bigod 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.

• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.).Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.ISBN 978-1449966379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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

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