Person:Rynold De Wynterwade (2)

The descent from Rynold de Wynterwade is a bit suspicious, as he was apparently a Saxon whose land "passed into the possession" of Roger de Busli, a Norman^[1]. If this is so, it seems unlikely that his own son and then grandson would inherit. Also, the names after Rynold are more Norman than Saxon, including his supposed son Henry, who was very likely born before the Norman Conquest.

It is very likely that Henry de Wyntword was not Rynold's son, but the son (or other relation) of Roger de Busli, and that he took the name "de Wyntword" to indicate that he was lord of Wyntword/Wentworth.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Wentworth, John. The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1878)
   1:6.

   'Reginald Wentworth, or, as given in the [William Flower] pedigree, Rynold de Wynterwade, who was living at the time of the Norman Conquest, A. D. 1066. As at that time there were no actual surnames, he was simply Reginald of Wentworth. In other words, he was the possessor, in Saxon times, of the lordship of Wentworth, in the Wapentake of Strafford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. ... The results of researches by Col. Joseph Lemuel Chester imply that, after the Conquest, the land or lands in Wentworth were in possession of Roger de Busli, Col. Chester says, "The inference is that Wentworth had formerly held Wentworth, but that it had passed into the possession of De Busli. The name, it is equally certain, existed before the Conquest, as the names of places were not changed, and hence the Wentworths were Saxons and not Normans."
   
   'Nothing is known of the family of Rynold de Winterwade except that he was succeeded by his son Henry ...'

2. ↑ Birth year estimated based on the fact that he was in possession of Wentworth in 1066, and on the estimated birth year of his descendant William, who succeeded his father in 1200.