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.[1] His feudal barony had as its caput the manor of Blagdon in Somerset.[2][3] He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086.[4]
He is thought to have originated in Burcy, Calvados.
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His 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.
Notes edit
- ^ High Ham | British History Online
- ^ Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
- ^ www.blagdon.org
- ^ Domesday Book Online
- ^ The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F