Background
He was born c. 1182, the eldest son of Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk by his wife Ida de Tosny.
He was born c. 1182, the eldest son of Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk by his wife Ida de Tosny.
In 1215 he was one of the twenty-five sureties of Magna Carta of King John. Hugh died on 18 February 1225. Very soon after Hugh"s death, his widow Maud remarried William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey.