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Birth:          ABT 1093 Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I07593
Note:
The following excerpt of a post to SGM by Chris Phillips gives some support to MCS's 
identification of Roger FitzRichard's mother as Jane Bigod (although Chris is not sure 
of where the first name "Jane" came from). Note that Chris followed this up with a post 
giving the name of Roger's father (see notes under husband Richard FitzEustace):

Chris Phillips
Jan 19 2003, 3:54 am
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval 
From: "Chris Phillips" 
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:51:05 -0000
Local: Sun, Jan 19 2003 3:51 am
Subject: Re: Roger fitz Richard of Warkworth

David Paul Meyer wrote: 
> Is the Roger fitz Richard, Lord of Warkworth, d. 1177, who married Alice
> de Vere and had a son; Robert, the same person as the Roger fitz Richard who 
> had a daughter, Alice, who married John fitz Richard of Chester, Baron of 
Pontefract?

> If so, is Alice de Vere the mother of both children?
> I would also appreciate finding more about his father Richard and his
> mother Jane Bigod. Are her parents Roger Bigod and Alice de Toeni?

Alice, wife of John, constable of Chester, was a daughter of Alice de Vere, and I think 
is believed that her father was Roger fitz Richard (although it has been a matter of 
some argument in the past).

Keat-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p. 948, has some discussion on Roger's 
connection with the Bigods (although I can't see anything on Roger's father - but 
perhaps there is an entry on him tucked away somewhere in the book).

Essentially, she says Roger was described as a "nepos" of earl Hugh Bigod, which 
may indicate that Roger's mother was an otherwise unknown daughter of Roger Bigod, 
but she suggests that alternatively she could have been a sister or niece of Roger. I 
can't see any indication of her name in Keats-Rohan's text - so I'm not sure where 
_Jane_ Bigod comes from.

She also says that he is said to have had an uncle called Thomas de Candelent. She 
quotes an article by C. T. Clay ("The ancestry of the early lords of Warkworth", 
Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th ser., 32 (1954), 65-71), in which he suggests this should be 
read as Canteloup. But Keats-Rohan says that Candelent is the Domesday form of 
Candlet, Suffolk, which Norman the sheriff held of Roger Bigod in 1086. She adds that 
"Roger's charter for Rochester made a grant for Norman's soul as Roger and his wife's 
predecessor in manors they were granting", and goes on to suggest "a family link" 
may have been forged between the Bigods and the issue of Norman.

Parents
BIGOD Roger (1060 - 15 Sep 1107)
DE TOSNY Adeliza (ABT 1070 - 1135)

Siblings
BIGOD Maud (Mary) (ABT 1085 - )
BIGOD Cecily (ABT 1090 - )
BIGOD Jane (ABT 1093 - )
BIGOD Hugh (ABT 1095 - 1177)
BIGOD Gunnora (ABT 1096 - )

Marriage To ____ Richard (ABT 1090 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Richard ABT 1090 - 
FITZ RICHARD Roger (ABT 1122 - 1178)

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