Serlo de Burci

Norman feudal baron

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][5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

Reference

  1. ^ High Ham | British History Online
  2. ^ Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
  3. ^ www.blagdon.org
  4. ^ Domesday Book Online
  5. ^ https://opendomesday.org/name/serlo-of-burcy
  6. ^ The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
  7. ^ 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.