Serlo de Burci
Serlo 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.[1] His feudal barony had as its caput the manor of Blagdon in Somerset.[2] He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086.[3][4]
He is thought to have originated in Burcy, Calvados.
Family
Serlo's daughter and heiress Geva married twice, her second husband being William de Falaise.[5] Robert FitzMartin was her son by her first marriage to Martin de Turribus. His other daughter was sent to Shaftesbury Abbey to which the abbey received the endowment of Kilmington.[6]
Reference
- ^ High Ham | British History Online
- ^ Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
- ^ Domesday Book Online
- ^ "Serlo of Burcy | Domesday Book".
- ^ The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
- ^ 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.