What is the ethnic origin of the surname Bold?

Answer 1

The powerful Anglo-Saxon tribes who once ruled all of Britain established the basis of the English language, which subsequently incorporated a variety of elements of the Latin, French, German, and other languages. The proud and noble English surname of Bold rises gloriously from Lancashire, where they held a family seat long before the Norman Invasion of 1066 A.D. Medieval scribes noted surnames in official records with some variance, so the history of the Bold surname is shared with that of the Bolt, Bould, and Bolde surnames. There is today (August 2014) a hamlet in the Idbury civil parish of Oxfordshire named Bould. While the idiom "Fortune favors the bold!" is widely known, no family motto is readily located.