Serlo de Burci, Sire de Burci and Blagdon

Feudal baron of Blagdon in Somerset in Domesday period. Parentage Unknown. His heir was his daughter Geva.

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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]

He is thought to have originated in Burcy, Calvados.

Family

His daughter and heiress Geva married twice, her second husband being William de Falaise.[5] Robert FitzMartin was her son by her first marriage.[6]

Notes

1. High Ham | British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol8/pp70-91
2. Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
3. www.blagdon.org
4. Domesday Book Online http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/landowners.html
5. The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
6. Martin/Fitz Martin http://www.geneajourney.com/martin.html