5th Earl of Surrey. Hugh Bigod in fiction Hugh Bigod and his wife [Mahelt] are the main characters in Elizabeth Chadwick's To Defy a King. They also appear as secondary characters in novels chronicling their parents such as The Time of Singing (UK: Sphere, 2008) published in the USA as For the King's Favor; The Greatest Knight; and The Scarlet Lion. Ancestry References M. Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century (Woodbridge, 2005) 1180s births 1225 deaths 3rd Earl of Norfolk Hugh Norfolk