Marisco was one of the prisoners captured from the French in a sea fight in 1217, and was afterwards reinstated in his island, along with his wife and children, who had also been taken.
De Marisco had nothing to gain by the King’s death, and he may certainly be acquitted of participation.
Sir William got into further trouble on an accusation of an attempt to assassinate Henry III, and this led to the breaking up of the robbers’ nest, and its being wrested from the Marisco family for many years.
They make very neat mats from marisco (a variety of marine rush); with these they cover their floors, and also take their rest upon them, or upon the soft furs of the seal or the beaver.
Adam de Marisco writes to the Friar Warden of Cambridge asking for vellum for scribes.
On one occasion Adam de Marisco tries to get from a brother of Nottingham the Moralia of St. Gregory, and Rabanus Maurus.
Adam de Marisco seems to have been responsible for the first considerable additions to the collection.
Yet in the reign of Edward I, one of the Irish branch of the Marisco family was reinstated in possession for a few years, though Edward II gave it to his favourite and his worst enemy, Hugh Spencer.
The unhappy and probably demented youth was put to death, and de Marisco fled to his island, which he further fortified, and there, attaching to himself a band of outlaws and malefactors, lived by piracy.
The Mariscos, in their inaccessible retreat, lived lawlessly until in 1242 Sir William Marisco was hanged for instigating an attempt on the life of Henry III.
There are also ruins, and the still inhabited keep, of Marisco Castle, occupying a strong precipitous site on the south-east, held in the reign of Henry II.
The treacherous De Marisco withdrew from him at this moment, and he suddenly found himself overpowered by numbers.
Geoffrey de Marisco tried to worm himself into the confidence of the man on whose destruction he was bent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marisco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
