Harold de Ewias lord of Ewyas Harold

✓ Harold de Ewias, son of Ralph (Raoul de Mantes), Earl of Hereford, by Gytha; b. [1050/57]; a minor in the wardship of Queen Edith in January 1066 ('Harold the son of Earl Ralph, of whom Queen Edith had the custody' - Domesday, Middlesex); Domesday tenant of Sudeley and Toddington, Glos., Droitwich, and Chilvers Coton and Burton Dassett, Warw. ('Harold son of Earl Ralph holds Sudeley of the king. Ralph his father held it'); lord of Ewias after 1086, which gave the castle its name; gave the churches of Ewyas to Gloucester St Peter in 1100, confirmed by 'Roberto herede meo', witnessed by 'Rogerus, Johannes, Alexander et Willelmus filii mei'; living after 1120 (Medieval Lands, EWIAS). 'The name of Harold's wife is not known' - NOT WIRED. CP XII/2 'Tregoz' p.18 n.(d): 'It is named after Harold de Ewyas, s. of Ralph, whose mother Godgifu (Goda) was sister of Edward the Confessor (Round, Feudal England, p.324). Harold was father of Robert de Ewyas.' 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. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd ed. vol. XII part 2 (1959), 'Tregoz (of Ewyas Harold)' pp.16-21 and notes (page images supplied by Aynsley, read 27 Oct 2026). [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.]