Harold de Ewyas

   Other names for Harold were Harold d’Ewyas and Harold de Sudeley Lord of Sudeley and Ewyas Harold.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 8th Edition, 235:19-23, 255:22, Harold d'Ewyas of Ewyas Harold, hereford, living in 1115, father of Robert I d'Ewyas and John de Sudely, married to Grace de Tracy. Harold was the son of Ralph, "Comes" of Hereford and Getha. His father Ralph was the son of Godgifu and Dreux, comté de Vexin, and his great grandfather was Æthelred II, King of England in 979-1016, ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁹
Harold, according to Dugdale, is the son of Ralph, Earl of Hereford. He possessed at the general survey, numerous lordships in England. Among these were Sudley and Todington in Gloucester, with the castle Ewyas, and other lands in Herefordshire, secured most likely because of his marriage to Maud, daughter of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester. Harold had two sons, John, his heir who assumed the surname from Sudley, the chief seat which he inherited; and Robert, who had the Castle of Ewyas, and therefore assumed the surname Ewyas.

~A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland. pg. 530

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Harold de Sudeley, son and heir of Ralph, held Burton Dasset & Droitwich, Warwickshire, in addition to Sudeley, Toddington and Chilvers Coton. In the Domesday Book, [vol. i, ff. 169, 177, & 244], he is described as Heraldus filius Randulti comitis. Harold made grants of land in Sudeley to Winchcombe Abbey. His wife and the date of his death is not knwon.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Sudeley), Vol. XIIA, pp. 412-413

• Web Reference: Ewyas Harold Castle.

• Web Reference: The Origin of Ewyas & Ewyas Documents.