Many different people lived in chepstow castle including- Servant nobals and most importantly ROGER BIGOD 5TH EARL OF NORFOLK!
the first owner of chepstow castle was william the conquerer
Chepstow Castle is one of the most famous and formidible fortresses in Wales. The castle is located on the River Wye which divides England from south Wales, near the main road from Gloucestershire into Gwent. Guarding the bridge on the most southern coastal land route into Wales, Chepstow's importance increased because the steep river cliffs of the Wye left no other useable crossing until one reached Monmouth about 15 miles up the river . The castle also guarded the flourishing Norman town of Cheap-stow (= 'the market town') at the mouth of the Wye.The construction of Chepstow began within months of the battle of Hastings, when William fitz Osbern was made Earl of Hereford and built Chepstow 1 as his base for the conquest of the Welsh kingdom of Gwent. The Great Keep in the center is the earliest dateable secular building in Britain. Chepstow was granted to the de Clare family about 1115, but no new construction was done until the castle, part of the vast inheritance of Isabella de Clare upon the death of her father Strongbow, passed to William Marshall upon his marriage to Isabella. William's addition of two towers to the vulnerable east end of the castle was greatly augmented by the further additions by 4 of his 5 sons between 1219 and 1245. These improvements included the lower ward with its gatehouse on the east end and the upper ward on the west end with two separate battlemented residential towers. The west end of the Great Tower was heightened as well.The Marshall brothers all died childless by 1245 and the families holdings were thus divided among the sisters. The eldest, Maud, received Chepstow which she passed upon her death to son Roger Bigod II, the Earl of Norfolk. While the Earl's interests were elsewhere, his son Roger Bigod III was very interested in his Marcher lordship when he inherited Chepstow in 1270. The lower ward of the castle received an enlarged curtain tower and a major residential range, the west end was strengthened further with the barbican gatehouse, and the Great Tower was further embellished. Bigod's numerous building projects left him in debt and Chepstow passed to the king upon his death in 1306. Most major action was avoided at Chepstow until the Civil War, when the castle's impregnable location and medeival defenses quickly succumbed to Cromwellian cannon.
it was built in 1177 by roger bigod and it took him 40 years to builf it
Bigod's Rebellion happened in 1536.
Isabel Bigod died in 1250.
Isabel Bigod was born in 1212.
Hugh Bigod - Justiciar - was born in 1211.
Hugh Bigod - Justiciar - died on 1266-05-07.
England Bigod Eggleston came to US on the ship Mary & John 1630. Married to Julianna.
This is from Wikipedia:The rebellion failed and King Henry arrested Bigod, Aske and several other rebels, such as Darcy; John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, the Chief Butler of England; Sir Thomas Percy; and Sir Robert Constable. All were convicted of treason and executed. During 1537 Bigod was hanged at Tyburn; Lords Darcy and Hussey both beheaded; Thomas Moigne, M.P. for Lincoln was hanged, drawn and quartered; Sir Robert Constable hanged in chains at Hull; and Robert Aske hanged in chains at York. In total 216 were executed: several lords and knights (including Sir Thomas Percy, Sir Stephen Hamerton, Sir William Lumley, Sir John Constable and Sir William Constable), 6 abbots (Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx, William Trafford, Abbot of Sawley, Matthew Mackarel, Abbot of Barlings and Bishop of Chalcedon, William Thirsk, Abbot of Fountains and the Prior of Bridlington), 38 monks, and 16 parish priests. Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland, was hanged at Tyburn, Sir John Bulmer hanged, drawn and quartered and his wife Margaret Stafford burnt at the stake.In late 1538, Sir Edward Neville, Keeper of the Sewer was beheaded. The loss of the leaders enabled the Duke of Norfolk to quell the rising,[6] and martial law was imposed upon the demonstrating regions. Norfolk executed some 216 activists (such as Lord Darcy, who tried to implicate Norfolk as a sympathizer): churchmen, monks, commoners.[
It was King John I of England.The Magna Carta (Great Charter of Freedoms), is the first major English legal charter. It was written in Latin and issued by King John (reigned 1199-1216) and the barons at Runnymede on June 15, 1215. It required the king to proclaim certain rights (for freemen), respect certain legal procedures, and accept that the monarch's will itself could be bound by the law. It was a most significant influence on the long historical process that led to the rule of law in the English-speaking world.Most people think that King John and the barons actually signed it, but there were in fact no signatures on the original charter, rather a seal placed by King John. In fact, the words of the Magna Carta ("Data per manum nostram") explicitly state that the document was personally issued by the king's hand. The King and the barons were following common law and practice of their time, that a seal was sufficient to certify a deed, in front of the proper witnesses. The barons neither signed nor attached their seals to it.The barons formed a committee of 25 "Enforcers of the Magna Carta". The information below is combined from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and "An historical essay on the Magna charta of King John" (Richard Thomson - 1829). They are listed with Thomson's order and spelling, but with certain titles and dates added from Oxford. (See related links below.)Richard de Clare, Earl of Clare (d. 1235)William de Fortibus (Forz), Earl of Aumerle (1191-1241)Geoffrey de Mandcville, Earl of Essex and Gloucester (d. 1216)Saber de Quincy, Earl of Winchester (d. 1219)Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford (1176-1220)Roger (II) Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (c.1143-1221)Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford (d. 1221)William (II) Mareschall, the younger (c.1190-1231)Robert Fitz- Walter (d. 1235)Gilbert de Clare (c.1180-1230)Eustace de Vescy (1169/70-1216)William de Hardell, Mayor of LondonWilliam de Mowbray (c.1173-c.1224)Geoffrey de Say (d. 1230)Roger de Mumbezon (Mount Begon), Lord of Hornby in Lancashire (d. 1245)William de Huntingfield (d. in or before 1225)Robert de Ros (c.1182-1226/7)John de Lacy, the Constable of Chester and Lord of Pontefract (c.1192-1240)William de Albeniac (Aubigny), Lord of Belvoir (c.1174-1221)Richard de Percy (b. before 1181, d. 1244)William Malet, Lord of Shepton Mallet in Dorset (c.1175-1215)John Fitz-Robert, Lord of Warkworth, Rothbury, and Barony of Whalton (d. 1241)William de Lanvalay, Lord of Walkern in Hertfordshire (d. 1215)Hugh Bigod (d. 1225)Richard de Muntfitchet (b. after 1190, d. 1267)King John.King John.