Notes for Sir Raffe Bayard
There is a Ralph Baiard in Domesday, a tenant of the the bishop of London at Albury, Herts. (See VCH, Herts, iv, 5 and K-R, DP, 327)
Or: in K-R's DD, p. 445, Hugh de Ellington is reported to have said he had daughters married respectively to Ralph Baard and Robert de Bulmer.