Gytha Countess of Hereford

• Preferred Name: Gytha Countess of Hereford^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}
  
• Alternate Name: Drake
  
• Gender: F
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: LH3Z-RQK NFS
  
• Title Nob: with note: Description: Countess of Suffolk Title
  
• Death: 1099 in Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England
  
• Birth: ABT 1028 in Herefordshire, England at LATI: N2.1344 LONG: E2.7492
  
• FSID: 9Q6D-L88
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN: False
  When Gytha Clapa Countess of Hereford was born in 1026, in Hertfordshire, England, her father, Osgod Clapa, was 21 and her mother, Agatha Clapa, was 26. She had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Raoul de Mantes Earl of Hereford. She died in 1099, in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 73.
  - http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#_ftnref184
  - http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#RaoulHereforddied1057B
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  Complete Peerage states that her name can be derived from Domesday:
  
  Domesday Book, vol. i, f. 14.8, if "Gethe uxor Radulfi comitis" is sufficient identification.
  There do not appear to be any reliable sources describing her ancestry in any certain way, except books which clearly confuse her with her similarly named mother-in-law (including Keats-Rohan Domesday People, p.245).
  
  Historian Ann Williams in (2008) The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 871-1066 (p.19) writes:
  
  it was probably to provide Ralph with additional support in his new command that King Edward arranged his marriage to Gytha, a woman from a wealthy east-midlands family, who by 1066 disposed of an estate totalling 94 hides and tencarucates, extending into Bedfordshire, Buckinhamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire. Some may have come from her husband or his uncle the king, but the general distribution of Gytha's lands suggests that she was a kinswoman of the rich east-midlands thegn Burgred, who with his sons held in excess of 160 hides in Bedfordshire, Buckinhamshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. To give a single example, Gytha's manor at Higham Ferrers (Northants) included sokeland at Rushden, Irchester and Raunds, but in 1086 the sokemen who dwelt there asserted that they had been Burgred's men, and the sokelands were claimed as belonging to Burgred's manor of Raunds. The division may be reflected in the archaeological record; the tenth-century ditched hall beneath the mediaeval manor of Furnells might represent Burgred's manor, while Gytha's sokeland in the vill perhaps became the twelfth-century manor of Burystead.`
  
  === !#Edward the Confessor, Frank Barlow (En ===
  !#Edward the Confessor, Frank Barlow (English Monarchy Series)-p28/30;
  
  === ID: Merged with a record that used the I ===
  
  ID: Merged with a record that used the ID 43803
  
  BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hertfordshire, England.
  
  BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 1028
  
  DEATH: Also shown as Died Deceased
  
  === (21)d. ===
  (21)d.
  
  === !Md. 1) abt 1042 to Tofrig "Pruda". ===
  !Md. 1) abt 1042 to Tofrig "Pruda".
  
  Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 448 - # 5

1. Harold de Sudeley Lord of Ewyas, b. ABT 1057 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England     d. 21 DEC 1115 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gytha Hereford - Memory of Someone: birth-name: Gytha Clopa
   Note: Memory of Someone: birth-name: Gytha Clopa Memory of Someone: female Memory of Someone: death: 1099; Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom Memory of Someone: birth: 1028; Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2365960763
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs-Ralph Countess Of Norfolk -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2676700743
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gytha Hereford - Published information: female
   Note: Published information: female Published information: birth: 1028; Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Published information: birth-name: Gytha Clopa
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2036922561
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs-Ralph Countess Of NORFOLK -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2041640822
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs. Gytha of Hereford - birth:
   Author: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, Inc., Release date: November 29, 1995, Not Given, Page number: Tree #1822
   Note: birth: Customer pedigree. Source Media Type: Family Archive CD death: Customer pedigree. Source Media Type: Family Archive CD Customer pedigree. Source Media Type: Family Archive CD
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222798
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gytha Hereford - birth: 1024; Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom
   Author: 13143.GED, Not Given
   Note: birth: 1024; Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom Source Media Type: Other Source Media Type: Other
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222793
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs-Ralph Countess Norfolk [Countess Suffolk] - birth: about 1017; Norfolkshire, England, United Kingdom
   Author: v11t4329.FTW, Not Given
   Note: birth: about 1017; Norfolkshire, England, United Kingdom Source Media Type: Other Source Media Type: Other
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222792
   
8. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20&%20Danish%20Kings.htm#Godgifudiedbefore1049;
   
9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: "Countess" Mrs. (Ralph) (de Norfolk) (Countess of Suffolk) -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243695014
   
10. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Gytha -
    Author: Source 5 (please edit title)
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2644080679
    
11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs-Ralph Countess Norfolk [Countess Suffolk] -
    Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797