Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
…Dartington at the Domesday Survey (1086), we can trace the barony’s transfer to Robert FitzMartin, son of Martin de Tours, whose family became one of the leading landholding…

Combe Martin History Blogs

Combe Martin History Blogs
downloads below, and on every page footer. Our contributors also interrogate, and challenge, the genealogical embellishments that have accumulated around the figure popularly styled ‘Martin de Tours’. How

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…accumulated around the figure popularly styled ‘Martin de Tours’. Read the referenced, downloadable paper discussing 'Martin de Tours' and Robert f…

Churches

Churches
, and Robert fitz Martin, the son of Martin de Tours (overlord of Combe Martin after the Norman Conquest). During the medieval period in England, the national Church played a…

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin

Early Silver Mining in Combe Martin
…British toponym Kum or Combe] to the village name, is from Martin de Tours a Norman Lord, who had great possessions here in the time of Henry I" (Britannia, posth., 1722, p.…