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. His feudal barony had as its caput the manor of Blagdon in Somerset. He is recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086.
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. 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.
Reference
- High Ham | British History Online
- Sanders, I., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.15, Blagdon
- www.blagdon.org
- Domesday Book Online
- "Serlo of Burcy | Domesday Book".
- The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
- 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.