Edward I threatening Bigod to comply with his orders: "You shall either go, or hang!"
Roger Bigod (c. 1245 – bf. 6 December 1306) was 5th Earl of Norfolk.
Seal of Roger Bigod appended to the Barons' Letter, 1301, showing arms of a lion rampant. He signed as Rogerus Bigo. Comes Norff. & Marescallus Anglie (Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk & Marshal of England). These arms, Per pale or and vert, a lion rampant gules are the arms first adopted by his great-grandfather William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1147–1219), Marshal of England, which Roger Bigod himself adopted following his own appointment as Marshal of England, as is recorded in the following rolls of arms: Falkirk Roll (1298)(H3); St George's Roll (E18). Previously he had borne: Or, a cross gules, as recorded in the following rolls of arms: Glover's Roll (B3); St George's Roll (E23)[1]Arms of "Bigod Modern": Per pale or and vert, a lion rampant gules, adopted by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, after 1269 following his inheritance of the office of Marshal of England from the Marshal family, of which these had formerly been the armorialsArms of "Bigod Ancient", dropped post-1269 by Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk following his inheritance of the office of Marshal of England: Or, a cross gules as recorded as borne by him in the following rolls of arms: Glover's Roll (B3); St George's Roll (E23)[2]
