Gytha --- Countess of Hereford

✓ as a name: Gytha, wife of Ralph, Earl of Hereford, 'daughter of --- (-after 1066)'; Domesday records 'this manor Gytha wife of Earl Ralph held and could sell' (Waddesdon hundred) and 'Countess Gytha' at Haversham and Stoke Goldington, Bucks. Bannister's guess that she was of Godwin's kin has no primary support (Medieval Lands, HEREFORD). Mother of Harold de Ewias (MedLands: 'Harold's mother Gueth'). TOP. Source: Medieval Lands (Charles Cawley, fmg.ac), read in the browser 27 Oct 2026, 'Untitled English Nobility D-K' - EWIAS, and 'England Earls 1067-1122' - HEREFORD (Mantes), citing the Gloucester St Peter cartulary, Gesta Stephani, Red Book of the Exchequer, Domesday, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Florence of Worcester, Orderic Vitalis and Simeon of Durham. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 27 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]