52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 3 - Longevity

This week's prompt is "Longevity".  That could mean many things but I decided that it would represent the oldest generation in my tree - the one that goes back as far as I have found (so far)

That belongs to my 19th great grandfather...

 

Reginald Wentworth or, as written in Domesday Book, 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.

Yorkshire consists of three division, known as the North,East, and West Ridings. Each Riding is subdivided into a number of Wapentakes or Hundreds, and it was in one of the latter that the lordship or manor of Wentworth was situated. Wentworth is in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearn, about nine miles from Sheffield, and thirteen from Doncaster.

 (Excerpt from Doomesday Book)

The fact that he is described in Domesday Book as the lord of Wentworth, sufficiently attests his position as one of the principal men of his neighborhood, even at this early period. nothing, however, is known of his family, except that he was succeeded by his son, Henry Wentworth.

 

He was born about 1030 in Normandie, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France and died about 1066 in Strattford, Yorkshire England.