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For some time he was thought to have two wives, Adelaide/Adeliza and Alice/Adeliza de Tosny. It is now believed these were the same woman, Adeliza (Alice) de Tosny (Toeni, Toeny). She was the sister and coheiress of William de Tosny, Lord of [[Belvoir, Leicestershire|Belvoir]]. Their father was [[Robert de Todeni]].
 
He was succeeded by his eldest son, [[William Bigod]], and, after William drowned in the disastrous sinking of the [[Victims of the White Ship disaster|''White Ship'']] in 1120, by his second son, [[Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk]]. He also had three daughters: Gunnor, who married Robert fitz Swein of Essex, Lord of Rayleigh; Cecily, who married [[William d'Aubigny (Brito)|William d'Aubigny "Brito"]]; and Maud, who married [[William d'Aubigny (died 1139)|William d'Aubigny "Pincerna"]], and was mother to [[William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel]].<ref>Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage of England'', vol. 9.</ref>
 
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