Marisco

"Why's it called Marisco?" asked my 10 year - old daughter.

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I should have Englished that name of mine, it would have been more fitting, with more than half my blood Saxon - Godfrid of the Marsh for Godfrid de Marisco.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

I should have Englished that name of mine, it would have been more fitting, with more than half my blood Saxon - Godfrid of the Marsh for Godfrid de Marisco.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

But there are evidences of a much earlier occupation than the Roman -- indeed, so far as I know, there have been no Roman remains found yet upon the island -- and it is no unlikely supposition that the great skeleton of the Giant's Grave was some such feared and piratical chieftain as the first recorded lord of the island, the fierce de Marisco.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Then for some years de Marisco seems to have found even its mighty walls and granite cliffs too insecure, for he is found fighting among the French, and in 1217 was taken prisoner in a sea-fight, when Eustace the Monk, the pilot of the

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

His abilities were speedily recognized by his contemporaries, and he enjoyed the friendship of such eminent men as Adam de Marisco and Robert

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Marisco fled to his island, which he further fortified, and there, attaching to himself a band of outlaws and malefactors, lived by piracy.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Marisco who, conspiring the death of Henry III, persuaded a Knight sometime of his Court to murder him, and with that intent got at night by a window into the King's bedchamber; but He, in whose protection the lives of princes are, disappointed him, for the King lay elsewhere.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Marisco, built upon the extreme verge of the cliffs, commanding the bay and the landing-place, and overlooking in a wide sweep all the southern coast of the island, was already built in the eleventh century.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery