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Prince Rudolf visited England in 1733. He was a tall handsome fellow with an unusually long sharp straight nose and red hair. The nose & hair typlified his house -- the Elphbergs. Before Prince Rudolf left England, he had a duel with James, the 5th Earl of Burlesdon, 22nd baron of Rassendyll. After the duel, Prince Rudolf was wisked out of England & soon assumed the throne of Ruritania as Rudolf III. His direct line has ruled ever since. James died 6 months later and his wife, Countess Amelia, 2 months later, gave birth to the heir to the title & estates of Burlesdon. Thus there has been one red headed blue eyed Rassendyll in every generation since and it has been passed down that Rassendylls should avoid travelling to Ruritania.
Five generations later, our story begins with Rudolf Rassendyll, aged 29, who decides to go to Strelsau to see the current prince crowned king of Ruritania. Rudolf Rassendyll finds that the heir apparent not only is named Rudolf but looks like him.
The red hair is central to the story. This is a wonderful story for red headed people who like nobility, kings, look alikes, & entrigue.
The Romans came to Scotland, but never subdued it or made a peaceful colonial people of its inhabitants. Towards the end of the first century A.D. there was a great battle, called Mons Graupius by the historian Tacitus. On an unknown hill-slope in the northeast, his father-in-law Julius Agricola vanquished an army of tall, red-haired men who fought bravely with long swords and round shields.
Skipping over the next 30 years... Rome's Ninth Legion marched north to the relief of their fort under siege by the wild red-haired tribe, and was silently lost in as unrecorded massacre. The red-haired people, Caledonians, as the Romans called them, were the reason for Hadrian's Wall that was built across the northern outpost of Britannia. In all of recorded history red-haired people have never been mentioned as a group except by the Romans. Modern historians with the help of anthropologists endeavors have placed red-hair as a unique characteristic belonging to the Picts, and the Picts were characteristic to what is in modern history now known as Scotland. The Scottish people are a fusion of Pict, another ancient Irish tribe "Scotti", ancient Britons, the Norman and the Norseman. The latter being composed of Norwegians from Scandinavia but not withstanding and including the mixture of Canes and other early seafaring adventurers that composed the Viking. It should be noted that none of the people that invaded that land were red-haired, but surely blond and black-haired people. The way that the red hair was tranfused into remote parts of the world is a simple deduction to anyone who reads; "Have Claymore Will Travel"
Nora Chadwick is the one with the red hair rendition. She was quite well
known as an authority on the Celts. Her husband wrote a fantastic book on
the Picts.
the above per Linda Lawhon 26 Jul 1997
Jeremy Richmond's email tells Budini have red hair
The url of this page is
http://Genealogy.Org/~green/Scot/red.html and
http://millennium.FortuneCity.Com/greendale/500/Scot/red.html
(
http://members.FortuneCity.Com/marbanks/Scot/red.html)
This page was last updated 15 December 2000.
This page was put on the web by
James W. Green III.
