Hi Rudd Cousins, Many of you have mentioned in the past the potential for Rudd royal connections but have not elucidated further. Today I came across a Rudd Royal Connection, I can give more detailed info if anyone wants, but to summarize: 1) Increase Rudd m. Bathsheba Johnson 2) Maverick Johnson m. Deborah Payne 3) John Johnson m. Sarah Tisdale 4) John Johnson m. Mary Mousall 5) John Johnson m. Elizabeth Maverick 6) Elias Maverick m. Anne Harris 7) John Maverick m. Mary Gye 8) Robert Gye m. Grace Dowrish 9) Thomas Dowrish m. Ann Farrington 10) Charles Farrington m. Margery Stuckley 11) Sir Thomas Stukeley m. Ann Wood 12) Nicholas Stukeley m. Thomasine Cockworthy 13) Hugh Stukeley m. Katherine de Affeton 14) Richard Stukeley m. Elizabeth Fitz Roger 15) John Fitz Roger m. Alice 16) Sir Henry Fitz Roger m. Elizabeth de Holand 17) Roger Fitz Peter m. unknown wife 18) Sir Peter Fitz Reginald (knight) m. Ela Martell 19) Sir Reginald Fitz Piers m. Joan de Vivonia 20) William de Fortibus m. Maud de Ferrers 21) William de Ferrers m. Sibyl Marshall 22) William de Ferrers m. Agnes of Chester 23) Hugh of Kevelioc m. Bertrade de Montfort 24) Ranulph de Gernon m. Maud 25) Robert de Caen m. Maud Fitz Hamon 26) Henry I Beauclerc King of England (b. 1070, d. 1 Dec 1135) m. Matilda of Scotland (b. 1079, d. 1 May 1118) 27) William I, the Conqueror, King of England (b. 1027, d. 9 Sep 1087) m. Maud of Flanders (b. 1032, d. 3 Nov 1083) [Source, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists by Frederick Lewis Weis] Is this connection old news? It certainly seems well documented. Cousin Glenn