Family and Education
b. 4 Oct. 1507, 1st s. of John Bigod of Settrington by Jane, da. of Sir James Strangways of Harlsey. educ. Wolsey’s household, Oxf. m. disp. 4 Nov. 1528, Catherine, da of William, 1st Lord Conyers by Anne, da. of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, 1s. 1da. suc. gd.-fa. 1515. Kntd. aft. 21 Dec. 1529.Birthday given at gd.-fa.’s i.p.m., C142/50/115. Vis. Yorks. (Harl. Soc. xvi), 24, 75, 300; Test. Ebor. iii (Surtees Soc. xlv), 374; LP Hen. VIII. This biog. rests largely on A. G. Dickens, Lollards and Protestants in the Dioc. of York 1509-58, chap. iii, and Two Tudor Tracts (Yorks. Arch. Soc. rec. ser. xccv), intro.
Offices Held
Servant, Wolsey’s household by June 1527; j.p. Yorks. (E. Riding) 1532; commr. for tenths of spiritualities, Yorks. 1535; steward, liberty of Whitby Strand, Yorks, by 1537.
Main residences: Mulgrave Castle; Settrington, Yorks.
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Commons 1509-1558
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BIGOD (BIGOT), Sir Francis (1507-37)
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Oxford 1644
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