Serlo de Burci

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Serlo de Burci was a Norman of the eleventh century. After the Norman Conquest of England, he became a tenant-in-chief and major landowner in south-west England[1]. His estate centred on Blagdon in Somerset[2]. He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086[3].

He is thought to have originated in Burcy, Calvados.

[edit] Family

His daughter and heiress Geva married twice, her second husband being William de Falaise[4]. Robert FitzMartin was her son by a first marriage[5].

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ High Ham | British History Online
  2. ^ www.blagdon.org
  3. ^ Domesday Book Online
  4. ^ The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
  5. ^ Martin/Fitz Martin