Roger Bigod , 5th Earl of Norfolk 
Roger was born about 1245 in Thetford, Norfolk, England. Roger's father was Hugh Bigod , Chief Justice of England and his mother was Joan de Stuteville , Heiress of Liddell. His paternal grandparents were Hugh Bigod , 3rd Earl of Norfolk, MCS and Maud Marshal; his maternal grandparents were Nicholas de Stuteville , Lord Cottingham, Sir and Devorguilla of Galloway. He had a brother and a sister, named Ralph and Joan. He was the oldest of the three children. He had two half-brothers named Baldwin and Hugh. He died in December 1306 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England (dsp).General Notes
Th 5th and last Earl of Norfolk of this 1140/1 or 1189 creation, another Roger (le) Bigod, also served as Marshal at Edward I's coronation but was stripped of the office by the King on refusing to take an army to Gascony in early 1297. After a long-standing dispute with the King over the confirmation of his charters and Magna Charta itself he in 1302 surrendered the Earldom for regrant together with a life interest in additional territorial possessions bringing him an annual income of 1000 pounds (over 24 million in late 1990 pounds). On his dying childless in late 1306 the Earldom and Marshalcy reverted to the Crown, whereas if he had not made the surrender four years earlier the former at any rate would have passed to his brother. [Burke's Peerage, on "Norfolk, other creations", p. 2090]
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Roger was the hero of a famous altercation with Edward I in 1297, who commanded him to serve against the King of France in Gascony, while Edward went to Flanders. The earl asserted that by the tenure of his lands he was only compelled to serve across the seas in the company of the king himself, whereupon Edward said, "By God, earl, you shall either go or hang," to which Bigod replied, "By the same oath, O king, I will neither go nor hang." The earl gained his point, and after Edward left for France, he and Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, prevented the collection of an aid for the war and forced Edward to confirm the charters in this year and again in 1301. Roger died without issue. His title became extinct and reverted to the crown. The Bigods held the hereditary office of steward (dapifer) of the royal household, and their chief castle was at Framlingham in Suffolk. (EncyclopÊdia Britannica, 1961 ed, Vol. 3, pages 556/557, Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)
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Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, and 2nd earl marshal of this family, took a distinguished part in the wars of King Edward I., having previously, however, in conjunction with the Earl of Hereford, compelled even that resolute monarch to ratify the Great Charter and Charter of the Forest. His lordship m. 1st, Aliva, dau. and heiress of Phillip, Lord Basset, and widow of Hugh Despencer, slain at Evesham, and 2ndly, Joane, dau. of John de Avenne, Earl of Bayonne, but had no issue by either. In the 29th of Edward I. the earl constituted that monarch his heir, and surrendered into his hands the marshal's rod, upon condition that it should be returned in the event of his having children, and that he should receive £1,000 prompt, and £1,000 a year for life; in consequence of which surrender his lordship was recreated Earl of Norfolk in 1302, with remainder to his heirs male by his 1st wife, but dying without issue, as stated above, in five years afterwards, the Earldom became (according to the surrender) extinct in the Bigod family, although his lordship left a brother, John Bigod, his heir-at-law, whose right seems to have been annihilated in this very unjust and extraordinary manner, and so completely destroyed that he did not even inherit any of the great estates of his ancestors. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1060 in St. Saveur, Calvados, Normandy, France d.08 Sep 1107 in Evesham, Suffolk, England.
- b.~ 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1070 in St Saveur, Normandy, France d.> 1130 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.< 1090 in of Great Addington & Drayton, Northamptonshire, England d.15 May 1141 in Slain in a riot in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1116 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.> 1185
- b.~ 1093 in Clare, Suffolk, England d.~ 1163
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.1130 in Normandy, France d.07 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.1112 in France d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandy
- b.1154 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1119 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.19 JAN 1147/48 in Laodicea, Holy Lands (dspm)
- b.1137 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.13 Jul 1199 in Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1120 in Alencon, Orne, Normandy, France d.04 Oct 1174
- b.~ 1214 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.Nov 1266 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1075 in Somerset, England d.< 1130
- b.~ 1106 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1165
- b.~ 1090 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.1100 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.1100 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.1147 in Near The Choir, Braenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England d.6 JAN 1147/48 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1100 in Leinster, Ireland d.1 JAN 1170/71 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
- b.1114 in Leinster, Ireland d.1191
- b.~ 1245 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.Dec 1306 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England (dsp)
- b.~ 1105 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.1183 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1140 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.1202
- b.~ 1115 in Lazenby, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1160 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1110 in Eye, Suffolk, England d.~ 1189
- b.~ 1140 in Eye, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1110 in Welbeck, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in Cottingham, East Ride Yorkshire, England d.1233 in Liddell, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1120 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.1191 in Acre, Palestine
- b.~ 1160 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England d.> 1193
- b.~ 1106 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England d.< 1175
- b.~ 1130 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England d.~ 1218
- b.~ 1216 in Liddell, Cumberland, England d.<06 Apr 1276 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1096 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.12 May 1166 in Abbey of Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland
- b.< 1121 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.22 Sep 1174 in Loch Fergus, Scotland
- b.1095 in England
- b.1164 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland d.19 Dec 1200 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.< 1075 in Allerdale, Scotland
- b.1126 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.1086 in Scotland d.> 1126
- b.~ 1195 in Galloway, Perthshire Scotland
- b.~ 1115 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.1162
- b.~ 1142 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.1189
- b.~ 1120 in of Essex & Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1170 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.11 Jun 1217 in Abbey of Dundren, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
- b.~ 1108 in Workington, Coupland, England d.1170 in Kendal, Westmorland, England
- b.~ 1154 in Kendal, Westmorland, England d.1 JAN 1190/91
- b.~ 1124 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.~ 1166 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England
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