Redwine History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Early Origins of the Redwine family

The surname Redwine was first found in Northumberland at Redeswood. John de Redewod held a knights fees here in 1242. 1

The source “Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.” notes likely the same person with a slightly different spelling: John de Redewode. 2

The Saxon Redwald or Raedwald (d. 627?), King of the East-Angles, was the son of Tytili or Tytla, the son of Wuffa or Uffa. The latter was reckoned as eighth in descent from Woden, and after him, as first East-Anglian king, the kings of his house were called Uffingas. Redwald rose to great power, and even in the reign of Æthelbert obtained the leadership of all the English peoples south of the Humber, with the exception probably of the kingdom of Kent, and is therefore reckoned as fourth of the kings that held a power of that kind.” 3