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Introduction to Combe Martin
Introduction to Combe Martin
…Martin. Beginning with William de Falesia, who held Dartington at the Domesday Survey (1086), we can trace the barony’s transfer to Robert FitzMartin, son of Martin de
Combe Martin History Blogs
Combe Martin History Blogs
…around the figure popularly styled ‘Martin de Tours’. License and Terms of Use: The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license | © CMVHP 2023-2026. Non-Commercial Use | No Derivatives. CMVHP h…
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…Manor of Combe Martin. Our contributors also interrogate and challenge the genealogical embellishments that have accumulated around the figure popularly styled ‘Martin de Tours
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. Pancras, likely from the Priory of St. Pancras Lewes in East Sussex, and Robert fitz Martin, the son of Martin de Tours (overlord of Combe Martin after the Norman Conquest)…
Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
…Combmartin, and that "the addition of Martin [to the old British toponym Kum or Combe] to the village name, is from Martin de Tours a Norman Lord, who had great possessions…