The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Randuile : probably Rodeville or Rudeville. Rudeville, now Rouville, is near Gisors; and under the latter name the family still flourished in Normandy late in the last century. Two De Rouvilles were represented at the great Assembly of the Nobles in 1789. They bore, Or a lion crowned Azure. In England, a William de Rodeville or Rudeville, in the thirteenth century, held the manor of Lindley, in Yorkshire, of Robert de Moubray by knight service (Testa de Nevill, 92, 96). Alan de Rodewell, of Leicestershire, occurs about 1272 in the Rotuli Hundredorum.