♂Roger Bigod

Roger Bigod was the twenty-seventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Maud Bigod.

He is known only as the father of Maud, who is said to have married William d’Aubigny of Buckenham in Norfolk (died 1139), the king’s butler^W. Their son, the younger William d’Aubigny, became Earl of Arundel. No dates, wife or place are known for Roger himself.

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Where this comes from

Everything above rests on one compiled source, the Complete Peerage (second edition, volume 1, 1910, under Arundel, page 233), 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 his own time is known for Roger.

Which Roger

He is not Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, who died in 1221; that man belongs to a later generation than Maud’s husband, and has a page of his own.

The descent through John Washburn

The line from Roger to Nancy Jane Blanchard runs through Maud, her son William d’Aubigny, his daughter 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.