Manor of Combe Martin

The Manor of Combe Martin was a medieval manor estate in Combe Martin, Devon, England.

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Cumbe as the first of 17 holdings in capite of William de Falaise:

Willielmus de Faleise tenet de rege Cumbe. Brictric et Edwi libere tenebant tempore Edwardi Regis et geldabat pro 2 hidae et una virgata terrae. Terra 20 carrae. In dominio sunt 3 carrae et 9 servi.... 18 villii et 10 bordarii... cum 14 carrae.... ibi (est) pastura 1 leuga longae et tantidem laterae et 5 acrae silvae... Olim et nunc valet 100 solidae. ("William of Falaise holds Cumbe from the king. Brictric and Edwy held it freely and jointly in the time of King Edward the Confessor and it paid tax for 2 hides and 1 virgate of land. Land for 20 ploughs. In lordship there are 3 ploughs and 9 slaves, 3 virgates. 18 villagers and 10 smallholders with 14 ploughs and 1 1/2 hides. There is pasture 1 league long and as wide. Woodland, 5 acres; 21 cattle, 9 pigs, 140 sheep, 19 goats. Value formerly and now 100 shillings")

William de Falaise was a Norman from Falaise, Normandy, today in the Calvados department in the Lower Normandy region in northwestern France. He was feudal baron of Stogursey in Somerset, and held in addition lands in Devon. The Exeter Domesday Book lists him as holding the following seventeen Devon manors as a tenant-in-chief of the king:

He married Geva de Burci, as her second husband, the daughter and sole heiress of Serlo de Burcy, feudal baron of Blagdon, Somerset, which barony is sometimes stated to be of Dartington, Devon, as the caput cannot be clearly assigned exclusively to either place. Geva's first husband was "Martin" (d.pre-1086) for whom she produced a son and heir Robert FitzMartin (d. 1159) who with his descendants were feudal barons of Blagdon. His daughter and sole heiress to the feudal barony of Stogursey was Emma de Falaise who married William I de Curcy (d. circa 1114), to whose descendants the barony of Stogursey passed.

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