♀Maud Bigod

Maud Bigod was the twenty-sixth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her son William d’Aubigny (died 1176), Earl of Arundel.

She is said to have been the daughter of Roger Bigod and the wife of William d’Aubigny of Buckenham in Norfolk (died 1139), the king’s butler^W, and to have been the mother of their heir, the younger William, who held Buckenham and later became Earl of Arundel by his marriage to the dowager queen Adelise of Louvain. No dates of birth or death are known for her.

Notes

Where this comes from

Everything above rests on one compiled source, the Complete Peerage (second edition, volume 1, 1910, under Arundel, pages 233 and 235), which describes the younger William as son and heir of William d’Aubigny of Buckenham, who died in 1139, “by Maud, da. of Roger le Bigod”. No record of her own time is known for her.

Roger Bigod

The Complete Peerage calls her father Roger le Bigod. He is not Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who died in 1221; that man belongs to a later generation than Maud’s husband.

The descent through John Washburn

The line from Maud to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs through her granddaughter Alice d’Aubigny and her descendants to John Washburn of Bengeworth, who died in 1547. That the John Washburn of the pedigrees was this man is the identification of the Washbournes’ historian, James Davenport, not a record’s, so the descent through him is probable.