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Marmion Shackerley Marmion [q. v.] belonged; and lastly Phllip (d. 1276). Robert Marmion the younger was father of William Marmion, who was summoned to parliament in 1264, and ancestor of the Lords Marmion of Witrington, summoned in 1294 and 1297-1313.

Robert Marmion the elder served under John in Poitou in 1214. He married Juliana de Vassy, and had a son, (d. 1291). This Philip was sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1249, and of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1261. He served in Poitou in 1254, and was imprisoned when on his way home through France at Pons (, v. 462). He was one of the sureties for the king in December 1263, and fighting for him at Lewes, on 14 May 1264, was there taken prisoner. Philip Marmion married, first, Jane, daughter of Hugh de Kilpeck, by whom be had two daughters, Jane and Mazera; and secondly, Mary, by whom he had another daughter Jane, who married Thomas de Ludlow, and was by him grandmother of Margaret de Ludlow. Tamworth passed to Jane, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Baldwin de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir John Dymoke [q. v.], in whose family it has since remained. Scrivelsby is said to have been held by the Marmions by grand serjeanty on condition of performing the office of king's champion at the coronation. But this rests purely on tradition, and there is no record of any Marmion having ever performed the office. The first mention of the office of champion occurs in a writ of the twenty-third year of Edward III (1349), where it is stated that the holder of Scrivelsby was accustomed to do this service. From this it may perhaps be assumed that Philip Marmion at least had filled the office at the coronation of Edward I. For the later and more authentic history of the office of king's champion held bv the Dymokes of Scrivelsby as representatives of Philip Marmion, see under (d. 1381).

[Chronicles of William of Newburgh and Robert de Torigny in Chron. Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I; Annales Monastici; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 375; Eyton's Itinerary of Henry II; Foss's Judges of England, ii. 95-7; Banks's Hist. of the Marmion Family; Palmer's Hist. of the Marmion Family.]  MARMION, SHACKERLEY (1603–1639), dramatist, apparently only son of Shackerley Marmion, owner of the chief portions of the manor of Aynho, near Brackley, Northamptonshire, was born there in January 1602-3. His mother was Mary, daughter of Bartrobe Lukyn of London, gentleman, and his parents' marriage was solemnised at the church of St. Dunstan's-in-the-West on 16 June 1600 (, Collectanea, v. 216). The father, eldest son of Thomas Marmion (d. 1583) of Lincoln's Inn (by his wife Mary, youngest daughter of Rowland Shakerley of Aynho, whom he married in 1577), studied at the Inner Temple, was appointed, 7 April 1607, a commissioner to inquire into any concealed land belonging to Sir Everard Digby and the other conspirators executed for their share in the Gunpowder plot, and in 1609-10 he was escheator of Northamptonshire and Rutland. He sold his interest in Aynho about 1620 to Richard Cartwright of the Inner Temple, and thus reduced his family to poverty (, Northamptonshire, i. 137). Shackerley, however, was educated at Thame free school under Richard Butcher, and in 1618 became a commoner of Wadham College, Oxford. Although he did not matriculate till 16 Feb. 1620-1, his caution money was received as early as 28 April 1616. He proceeded B.A. 1 March 1621-2, and M.A. 7 July 1624, and seems to have resided in college till October 1625. On leaving the university he tried his fortune as a soldier in the Low Countries, but soon settled in London as a man of letters. Ben Jonson patronised him, and he became one of the veteran dramatist's 'sons.' Heywood, Nabbes, and Richard Browne were among his associates. But he lived riotously and was familiar with the disreputable sides of London life. On 1 Sept. 1629 the grand jury at the Middlesex sessions returned a true bill against him for stabbing with a sword one Edward Moore in the highway of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields on the previous 11 July. He does not appear to have been captured (Middlesex County Records, ed. Jeaffreson, iii. 27-8).

He obtained some reputation as a playwright, but in 1638 he joined a troop of horse raised by Sir John Suckling, and accompanied it in the winter on the expedition to Scotland. Marmion fell ill at York, and Suckling removed him by easy stages to London. There he died in January 1639, and was buried in the church of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield. According to Wood he had squandered an estate worth 700l. a year, but there is possibly some confusion here between him and his father.

Marmion was author of an attractive poem (in heroic couplets) based on Apuleius's well-known story of 'Cupid and Psyche.' The title-page ran 'A Morall Poem intituled the Legend of Cupid and Psyche or Cupid and his Mistris. As it was lately presented