Serlo de Burci

Serlo 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] He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086. ^{[3] [4]}

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. ^[5] 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. ^[6]

References

1. High Ham | British History Online
2. Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
3. Domesday Book Online
4. "Serlo of Burcy | Domesday Book".
5. The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
6. 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. ISBN   978-0-85115-257-8.