Medieval English families on the internet: R

Radclyffe

• The Radclyffe Family [formerly at http://www.ordsallhall.org/; unavailable, 26 April 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from May 2002] (City of Salford)
  Brief outline of the Lancashire family, from the mid-14th century; in the Resources section of the Ordsall Hall web site

Redman

• William Greenwood The Redmans of Levens and Harewood. A contribution to the history of the Levens family of Redman and Redmayne in many of its branches (1905) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, 12th century and later

Reviers (Redvers)

• Robert de Torigny and the family of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy (Todd A. Farmerie)
  Includes discussion of the traditional descent of the Reviers earls of Devon from a niece of Gunnor
• The Earldom of Devon. A Digression of the Families of Redvers and Courtenay (Pat Patterson)
  12th-16th centuries; extract from Charles Worthy's The History of the Suburbs of Exeter (1892)
• Baldwin de Meules and Richard de Redvers (Pat Patterson)
  Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Richmond

• Alain le Roux, Earl of Richmond (Pat Patterson
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Ridel

• Women and Inheritance in Norman England: The Case of Geva Ridel (Judith A. Green, Queen's University of Belfast; in Prosopon, issue 12) (Prosopon, Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford)
  Discussion of Geva, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester (d.1101), and wife of Geoffrey Ridel, and her possible relationship with Robert de Boucy; PDF format

Rives

• Ryves/Rives (Steve and Natalie Fleming) [formerly at http://users.erols.com/someday/Rives.html; not available, 30 March 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2002]
  Narrative pedigree, Dorset, 15th century and later

Robert fitz Erneis

• Robert Fitz Erneis (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Robert fitz Maldred

• John Horace Round, The Origin of the Nevilles, in Feudal England (1895) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  Short paper speculating about the ancestry of Robert fitz Maldred, male-line ancestor of the Nevilles. Feudal England is available as a PDF file (17.6 MB)

Roberts

• The Roberts Family of Gwithian and Towednack, Cornwall (Kathie Weigel, Cornish Genealogy Database)
  Annotated pedigree, 16th century and later

Roper

• Roper Families in England: Part I and Part II (Genealogy Web Page of L. David Roper)
  Detailed notes on occurrences of the surname, Kent and elsewhere; the extracts relating the surname to the Norman "Counts of Rupierre" should be treated with caution - the alternative derivation given, "a maker of rope", seems preferable

Roumare

• William de Roumare (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Royal families

• History of the monarchy (The British Monarchy, official website)
  Section including brief biographies of monarchs (English and Scottish)
• Databases and Portraits of the British Royals (Brigitte Gastel Lloyd)
  Comprehensive collection of genealogical information, links, portraits etc
• Tudor England, 1485 to 1603 (Englishhistory.net)
  Includes biographies, genealogies and images of the Tudors
• List of People (Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxons.net)
  Includes brief biographies of Anglo-Saxon monarchs, 10th and 11th centuries, in the section on "Rulers"
• Monarchs of Britain (Britannia, 'America's Gateway to the British Isles')
  Brief biographies of English monarchs; note that the genealogical links are to Brian Tompsett's Directory of Royal Genealogical Data - a sometimes inaccurate compilation
• Llywelyn ap Iorwerth ancestor table (Stewart Baldwin)
  Ancestors of the 13th-century prince of North Wales, with notes
• Plantaganet Line, Edmund Crouchback (First Earl of Lancaster) to Eleanor Plantaganet, wife of Richard Fitz Alan (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 13th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• William the Conqueror, the Family of the Conqueror, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent and Robert, Count of Mortain and Earl of Cornwall (Pat Patterson)
  Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England (Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
  Scanned images, in PDF format, of a series of papers by G. E. Cokayne and G. W. Watson, giving four generations of ancestry for each English monarch from Henry II to Victoria, originally published in The Genealogist, new series. (Subscription required.)
• British Royalty: The Royal Lineage (Burke's Peerage and Gentry)
  Narrative pedigree of the monarchs of England and Scotland, presented as a free sample of the subscription database available at the same site
• Plantagenet Dynasty: Genealogy and History (Kevin Bradford)
  A collection of historical and genealogical resources relating to the Plantagenet dynasty; in progress.

Royall

• Royall/Ryall (Steve and Natalie Fleming) [formerly at http://users.erols.com/someday/Royall.html; not available, 30 March 2003; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2002]
  Narrative pedigree, Essex/London, 15th century and later

Rushworth

• The House of Rushworth (Philip Rushworth; transcribed by Edward Rushworth)
  Yorkshire, 13th century and later

Russell

• The Rozels of Bedford (Baronage Press)
  Note on the fictitious descent, exposed by J.H. Round, of the Earls of Bedford from an 11th century Hugh de Rosel