Serlo de Burci was a Norman of the eleventh century. After the

Norman conquest of England The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Norman, French people, French, Flemish people, Flemish, and Bretons, Breton troops, all led by the Du ...

, he became a

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and major landowner in south-west England. His feudal barony had as its '' caput'' the manor of

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. 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.The Domesday Book Online - Landowners D-F
/ref> Robert FitzMartin was her son by her first marriage to Martin de Turribus. His other daughter was sent to

Shaftesbury Abbey Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and Dissolution of the monasteries, dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VI ...

to which the abbey received the endowment of Kilmington.

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