Introduction to Combe Martin

Introduction to Combe Martin
…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 dynasties in Devon and Wal…

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…styled ‘Martin de Tours’. Read the referenced, downloadable paper discussing 'Martin de Tours' and Robert fitz Martin. Combe Martin is Part of Devo…

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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
…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 here in the time of Henry I" (Brita…

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