Lucy de Aunou - Dates surrounding Lucy and family

There are a bunch of chronological problems around her and the profiles around her. This might take a while.

Thank you — that’s very kind.

So, what was going on is that the main easily obtainable book that mostly gets used to put the de Marisco line together is Quite Old and Full of Untruths. Lucy was married to the wrong de Marisco. So I moved her. All seems well now, but you might check it out.

To my further delight, I see that she is the great-aunt of the William de Marisco, executed for treason, that we talked about in one of our True Crime Medieval podcasts — he’s interesting, BUT my favorite thing about the whole story is that the de Mariscos took over the almost impregnable Isle of Lundy and were pirates for some generations. Then later the Isle of Lundy, after centuries of being home to not very well behaved people, got bought by a guy who declared it to be a “free kingdom,” with him as the king; they made their own coinage, AND if you wanted to go to Lundy, you left the shore of Devon (which actually was the owner of Lundy) and then when you go to Lundy you had to go through Lundy Customs. Which had no legality at all, but there you are, and I want very much to go to Lundy and see the puffins and go to the tea shop and look at the one place where, if you were the Real King’s soldiers, you could land and overcome the de Mariscos. Once. lol.

anyway. fixed the dates.

they are only sound, no visuals, but they are at truecrimmedieval,com — there is an index now, so William de Marisco should not be hard to find.

We are probably enjoying ourselves way too much. But we do it entirely because we are having fun and getting to go find out things we didn’t know. No advertisements and no way to send us money.

We get to continue to be medievalists even though we retired.

we do have special episodes sometimes and go into the early modern period.

True, that.