Sir John d'Ewyas
- Marriage: Cecily de Samlesbury in 1295 157
- Died: Bef 1311, Lancashire, England 157
 General Notes:
~From the footnotes of The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, pg. 121 823
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 715
The Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, show John Devyas, of Yorkshire married to the daughter and one of the heires of Wir William Samlesbury of Samlesbury, Lancashire, Knight. They are shown as having a son anmed Nicholas Devyas who has a daughter, the sole heir who marries Gilbert Sowthworthe of Southworthe. (Southworth)
~Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, pg. 26
• Background Information. 157
Sir John d'Ewyas died sometime before 1311. He was a knight of the shire in 1295, and was a member of the Parliament that year for Lancashire. By his marriaged with Cecily de Samelsbury, he acquired the moiety of the Samlesbury estate. There was a long legal contest between Sir d'Ewyas and his brother-in-law Sir Holland before the inheritance was settled.
~The Genealogy of the Southworths, pg. 408
John married Cecily de Samlesbury, daughter of Sir William de Samlesbury Knight and Avina de Notton, in 1295.157 (Cecily de Samlesbury died after 1311 in Lancashire, England 157.)
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