FitzMartin was the surname of a Norman family based in England and Wales between 1085 and 1342.
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The first known member of the family was an obscure man called Martin, who appears to have died prior to 1100. 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.
Geva's second husband, William de Falaise, is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 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.
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.
Serlo de Burcy
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Martin = Geva = William de Falaise Nun of Shaftsbury
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Robert, d.1159 Emma = William Fitz Humphry (ancestors of John de Courcy)
=Maud Peverel, alive 1133.
=Alice de Nonant, d. 1194.
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Robert, d. 1162? Sibyl, alive 1198 William, d. 1209
=Warin de Morcells =Angharad ferch The Lord Rhys, d. August 1226.
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William, d. by 15th Feb. 1216. Martin Fitz William
=Avice de Breaute, alive 1246. (illegitimate; existence uncertain)
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Sir Nicholas, d. 1282. Robert Fitz Martin, alive 1235.
=? ?, d. before 1260. (issue)
=Isabelle Fitz William
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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
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William, Lord Martin; d. by Oct. 1324. Mary Martin
=Eleanor Fitz Piers; marr. by Jan. 1282. =Richard Le Fleming, Lord of Slane, Ireland.
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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
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James, Lord Audley (1313–86)
(Baron Audley)