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Birth:          ABT 1192 of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christening:    Sep 1201 
Death:          27 Mar 1248 
Burial:         Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, Wales

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Marshal
Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk, Countess of Surrey (1192 – 27 March 1248) was 
an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy co-heiress of her father William Marshal, 
1st Earl of Pembroke, and her mother Isabel de Clare suo jure 4th Countess of 
Pembroke. Maud was their eldest daughter.[1] She had two husbands: Hugh Bigod, 
3rd Earl of Norfolk, and William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey.

Maud was also known as Matilda Marshal.
Family[edit]

Maud's birthdate is unknown other than being post 1191. She was the eldest daughter 
of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, 4th Countess of 
Pembroke, herself one of the greatest heiresses in Wales and Ireland. Maud had five 
brothers and four younger sisters. She was a co-heiress to her parents' extensive rich 
estates.

Her paternal grandparents were John FitzGilbert Marshal and Sybilla of Salisbury, and 
her maternal grandparents were Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, known as 
"Strongbow", and Aoife of Leinster.

Marriages and issue[edit]

Sometime before Lent in 1207, Maud married her first husband, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl 
of Norfolk. It was through this marriage between Maud and Hugh that the post of Earl 
Marshal of England came finally to the Howard (Dukes of Norfolk).[2] In 1215, Hugh 
was one of the twenty-five sureties of the Magna Carta. He came into his inheritance 
in 1221, thus Maud became the Countess of Norfolk at that time. Together they had 
five children:[3]
Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (1209–1270) He died childless.
Hugh Bigod (1212–1266), Justiciar of England. Married Joan de Stuteville, by whom he 
had issue.
Isabel Bigod (c. 1215–1250), married firstly Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy, by whom 
she had issue; she married secondly John Fitzgeoffrey, Lord of Shere, by whom she 
had issue.
Ralph Bigod (born c. 1218, date of death unknown), married Bertha de Furnival, by 
whom he had one child.

Contrary to the assertion of Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, there is no 
evidence for a fourth son called Simon Bigod. A man of that name appears as a 
witness to one of Earl Hugh's charters (Morris, HBII 2), but as the eighteenth name in 
a list of twenty, suggesting no close connection to the main branch of the family. He is 
also named among the knights who surrendered to King John at Framlingham Castle in 
1216. He was a probably a descendant of Hugh or William Bigod, half-brothers to Earl 
Roger II Bigod.

Hugh Bigod died in 1225. Maud married her second husband, William de Warenne, 5th 
Earl of Surrey before 13 October that same year. Together they had two children:
Isabella de Warenne (c. 1228 – before 20 September 1282), married Hugh d'Aubigny, 
5th Earl of Arundel. She died childless.
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (August 1231 – c. 29 September 1304), in 1247 
married Alice de Lusignan, a half-sister of King Henry III of England, by whom he had 
three children.

Maud's second husband died in 1240. Her youngest son John succeeded his father as 
the 6th Earl of Surrey, but as he was a minor, Peter of Savoy, uncle of Queen consort 
Eleanor of Provence, was guardian of his estates.

Death[edit]

Maud died on 27 March 1248 at the age of about fifty-six years and was buried at 
Tintern Abbey with her mother, possibly her maternal grandmother, and two of her 
brothers.

Maud Marshal in literature[edit]

Maud Marshal is the subject of a novel by Elizabeth Chadwick, titled To Defy a King. 
In the book she is called Mahelt rather than Maud. She and her first husband Hugh 
Bigod appear as secondary characters in books chronicling their parents's lives: The 
Time of Singing (UK: Sphere, 2008) published in the USA as For the King's Favor; The 
Greatest Knight; and The Scarlet Lion.

Parents
MARSHALL William (ABT 1144 - 14 May 1219)
FITZGILBERT DE CLARE Isabel (1172 - 1220)

Siblings
MARSHALL Sibyl (ABT 1188 - 27 Apr 1245)
MARSHALL Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1192 - 27 Mar 1248)
MARSHALL Isabel (9 Oct 1200 - 17 Jan 1240)
MARSHALL Joane (ABT 1202 - ABT 1234)
MARSHALL Eve (1203 - 1246)

Marriage To PLANTAGENET (WARREN) William (1166 - 27 May 1240)
    m. 13 Oct 1225 

Notes

Parents
PLANTAGENET Hameline (1130 - 7 May 1202)
DE WARENNE Isabel (ABT 1139 - 13 Jul 1199)

Children by PLANTAGENET (WARREN) William 1166 - 27 May 1240
PLANTAGENET (DE WARENNE) John (Aug 1231 - 29 Sep 1304)

Marriage To BIGOD Hugh (ABT 1182 - 18 Feb 1225)
    m. ABT 1206 

Notes

Parents
BIGOD Roger (ABT 1150 - 2 Jul 1221)
DE TOSNY Ida (ABT 1160 - )

Children by BIGOD Hugh ABT 1182 - 18 Feb 1225
BIGOD ----- ()
BIGOD Isabel (ABT 1212 - 1239)

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