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Amerike was said to be a major sponsor, as well as donating logs from his estate to build the ship Matthew for the expedition.
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Richard ap Meryk, Anglicised to Richard Amerike ( or Ameryk ) ( c. 1445 – 1503 ) was a wealthy English merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff, of Welsh descent.
Richard Amerike was born in 1445 at Meryk Court, Weston under Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, a descendant of the Earls of Gwent.
America is so named in honour of either Amerigo Vespucci ( who referred to himself in writing as Americus Vespucius ), who was one of the first to assert that America was a newly discovered continent or from Richard Amerike.
The Bristol merchant Richard Amerike ( c. 1445 – 1503 ) who, it is claimed, gave his name to America, was born here.
Amerike and from
Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.
In 1908, the local Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd first proposed the theory that the word America had evolved from Amerike or ap Meryk, based on a lost manuscript that he claimed to have seen.
Amerike and estate
The manor house dates to 1265 and, in the late 15th century shares in the estate were purchased by Richard Amerike ( one of the possible sources of the name America ).
Amerike and for
Amerike married Lucy Wells and settled for a time at West Camel, near Ilchester in Somerset.
Amerike and expedition
Seeking new sources of fish and other resources, Amerike and other Bristol merchants helped fund an expedition beyond Iceland authorized by the king.
Amerike and .
** Richard Amerike, English merchant and patron of John Cabot ( b. 1445 )
Amerike became a wealthy and important merchant and dignitary, holding the post of King's Customs Officer three times and becoming the High Sheriff of Bristol in 1497.
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