FitzMartin

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FitzMartin was the surname of a Norman family based in England and Wales between 1085 and 1342.

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[edit] Family origins

The first known member of the family was an obscure man called Martin, who appears to have died prior to 1085. Little is known for certain of him; he was husband to Geva de Burci, and by her was father to a son called Robert. In his lifetime, Martin's son would be known as Robert fitz Martin, and this patronymic would develop into the surname FitzMartin.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Geva's new husband, William de Falaise, is listed as a landowner in Devon, Dorset and Somerset, as was her father, Serlo de Burci. The bulk of these estates, including Blagdon and Dartington, would later devolve on Robert.

[edit] Robert fitz Martin

[edit] The Lords of Cemais

[edit] The Crusaders

[edit] The Lords Martin

[edit] End of the Line

The last of the senior line of the family, Eleanor, died in 1342. By this stage, junior branches of the family were already established in Waterston, Dorset (later of Athelhampton); St. David's, Wales; and by 1365 Thomas Martyn had settled in the town of Galway, Ireland.

[edit] Family tree 1085 - 1342

                  Serlo de Burcy
                        |
            ____________|________________
            |                          |
            |                          |
   Martin = Geva = William de Falaise   Nun of Shaftsbury
          |        |
          |        |
  Robert, d.1159   Emma = William Fitz Humphry (ancestors of John de Courcy)
 =Maud Peverel, alive 1133.
 =Alice de Nonant, d. 1194.
  |
  |_______________________________________
  |                  |                   |
  |                  |                   | 
  Robert, d. 1162?   Sibyl, alive 1198   William, d. 1209
                    =Warin de Morcells  =Angharad ferch The Lord Rhys, d. August 1226.
                                         |
   ______________________________________|  _ _ _ _ _
   |                                                 |
   |                                                 | 
   William, d. by 15th Feb. 1216.            Martin Fitz William
  =Avice de Breaute, alive 1246.       (illegitimate; existence uncertain)
   |
   |___________________________
   |                          | 
   |                          |
   Sir Nicholas, d. 1282.     Robert Fitz Martin, alive 1235.
  =? ?, d. before 1260.       (issue)
  =Isabelle Fitz William
   |
   |_______________________________________________________________________________
   |                       |           |          |      |             |         | 
   |                       |           |          |      |             |         | 
   Sir Nicholas, d. 1260.  Sir Robert  Sir Warin  Avice  Bishop David  John     William
  =Maud de Brian           fl. 1303    d. 1328           d. 1327    fl. 1268   fl. 1326
   |                       issue                                                issue
   |_______________________________________________
   |                                           |
   |                                           | 
   William, Lord Martin; d. by Oct. 1324.      Mary Martin
  =Eleanor Fitz Piers; marr. by Jan. 1282.    =Richard Le Fleming, Lord of Slane, Ireland. 
   |
   |____________________________________________________________________________
   |                 |                       |                               |
   |                 |                       |                               | 
   Edmund, fl. 1297  Eleanor, 1285-1342      William, Lord Martin, d.1326    Joan, d. 1322.
  =Joan Hastings    =William Hastings       =Margaret Hastings              =Earl of Lincoln
   no issue         =Phillip de Columbers     no issue                      =Nicholas Audley
                        no issue                                             |
                                                                             |
                                                                 James, Lord Audley (1313-86) 
                                                                   (Baron Audley)

[edit] References

  • The Baronial Martins, Lionel Nex, 1987.
  • The Lords of Cemais, Dilwynn Miles, Haverfordwest, 1996.
  • The Tribes of Galway, Adrian J. Martyn, Galway, 2001.


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