Serlo (Burci) de Burci

Born [date unknown] in Normandy, France

Husband of Unknown Burci — married 1053 in Blagdon,Pitminster,Somerset,England

Descendants

Died about 1086 in Blagdon, Somerset, England

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Biography

Lyte mentions that it seems that Serlo was alive when the Domesday commissioners started work but had died before they completed it. ^[1]

His possessions formed a lasting feudal barony, referred to today as the barony of Blagdon. (Sanders preferred this name in his standard work. But he mentioned that Dartington, Devon is sometimes called caput of the barony also.) Dartington was among the lands of William de Falaise, but it ended up in the barony of his step-children.

Keats-Rohan entry for Serlo De Burci: ^[2]

• Norman, from Burcy, Calvados, arr. Vire, comm. cant. Vassy, Domesday tenant-in-chief in Somerset and tenant of the bishop of Wells. He died around 1086, when his daughter Geva, was wife of William de Falaise (q.v.) and another daughter was a nun of Shaftesbury. His heirs were the FitzMartins, descendants of Geva and her first husband, Martin (cf. Sanders, 15).

Research Notes

Serlo has been disconnected as the son of non-existent parents Eustace de Burgo and Madelaine.

Sources

1. ↑ Lyte, Sir Henry Maxwell (1919) “Burci, Falaise and Martin” in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeol. and Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. lxv, pp.1 -27.
2. ↑ Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People, pp.418-9.

• Cockayne, Gibbs et al., Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., Vol.8, pp.530ff.

• Sanders, English Baronies, p.15.

• Wikipedia:Serlo_de_Burci.