BAGOD D'ARRAS.

Wago, Bago or Bagod de Arras was descended front the Carloviginian counts of Artois, whose descendants were advocates of Arras, lords of Bethune and castellans of Saint Omer, and were among the greatest nobles of Flanders. In 1075, Robert sire de Bethune, or Wethume, advocate of Arras, died and had issue Robert, ancestor of the advocates of Arras, earls of Albemarle and dukes of Sully; second, Bagod d'Arras, who, in 1075, witnessed a charter in Flanders and came to England at the conquest, where his descendants were of the line of Bagod and Stafford, dukes of Buckingham. He held, 1086, Bromley in Stafford from Robert de Toeni. This same "Bagod (Bagot) Bromley" is still held by his descendants in the male line. The name occurs on the rolls of Scriven, Holinshed, Worcester and Brompton.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).