Serlon de Burci was a Norman of the eleventh century. After the Norman conquest of England, he became a feudal baron and major landowner in south-west England. His feudal barony had as its caput the manor of Blagdon in Somerset. He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086.
He is thought to have originated in Burcy, Calvados.
Marriage and Issue
Geva de Bucy (Buci) daughter of Serlo de Burci she was married to Martin de Turribus Lords of Cemais, see this for complete lineage of the Martin families, they had one son:
- Robert FitzMartin was her son by her first marriage to Martin de Turribus.
Geva married twice, her second husband being William de Falaise.
His other daughter was sent to Shaftesbury Abbey to which the abbey received the endowment of Kilmington.
Main article: FitzMartin Main article: Robert fitz Martin Main article: William Martin, 1st Baron MartinReference
- High Ham | British History Online
- Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
- www.blagdon.org
- Domesday Book Online
- "Serlo of Burcy | Domesday Book".
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- Cooke 1990, p. 38.
Sources
- Cooke, Katherine (1990). "Donors and Daughters: Shafteburys Abbey's Benefactors, Endowments and Nuns, c.1086–1130". In Chibnall, Marjorie (ed.). Anglo-Norman Studies. Vol. XII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1989. The Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-257-8.