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Several authors say that the R. had their origin in the Empordá, a Catalan region in the province of Gerona that includes towns from the judicial parties of Figueres, La Bisbal, Gerona and Olot. The R. intervened in important companies against the Moorish. Gilaberto R. passed to Mallorca when his conquest by King Don Jaime I of Aragon or soon after, as appears in several emphyteutic instruments of that time, which he signed as a witness in particular the donation that in 2 of the July calendars of 1239 Nuño granted Sánchez in favor of the Cistercian monastery on that island. Guillermo R. was knighted by the aforementioned Aragonese monarch in prize "for the bizarre actions that he made as a courageous Spanish in Orihuela (Alicante) against the rebels who wanted to deliver the city to the Moors of Granada, which R. knew, warned to the neighbors so that they assassinated the traitors, and convinced of it, although they finished many, they could not with all because of having fled, fearing their ruin ". This is how Mosén Jaime Febrer writes it in his Trovas. Branches of this lineage were established in the cities of Palma de Mallorca, Tarragona and Orihuela, and the surname spread throughout Catalonia, Valencia and Aragon. Another branch passed to France and resided in Paris. In the last third of the 16th century, Onofre R., a knight and attorney general, belonged to the branch of the city of Tarragona, who married Doña Oriente de Gassol and they procreated Onofre R. and Gassol. Another very old house. This illustrious surname comes from the Netherlands, having established itself in the Canary Islands at the end of the 16th century. Esteban R., founder in the Canary Islands of the House of his surname, celebrated nuptials in La Orotava, on