Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Roger le Bigod

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• • 24th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 27th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 90258950 
  • Father:
  • Roger Bigod 
  • Mother:
  • Juliana de Vere   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1147 
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  • ABT 1221 
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  • Ida de Tony
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  Hugh le Bigod

  Mary le Bigod

  Margaret le Bigod (Ahnentafel No:45129475 )

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  • Magna Carta Surety

    2nd Earl of Norfolk

• Sources for Roger le Bigod

  • ¹ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, Vol. I, London: J. Billing, Printer and Stereotyper (1851), pedigree XIII for Rev. Pierce William Drew.
  • ² Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, p. 226.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. 1, p. 271.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, p. 151.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas and Kimball G. Everingham, editor, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd edition, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2011), Vol. 2, p. 260.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 454-455.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 845.
  • ⁸ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 97.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk", _2nd_Earl_of_Norfolk, (accessed 03/27/2012).

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