Randolf

This name derives from Old High German “Randwulf,” composed of two elements “*randaz” (edge, border, margin, rim, shore) plus “*-wulfaz” (wolf). 1) Ranulf Flambard (~1060–1128) was Bishop of Durham and trusted adviser of William the Conqueror and his son William II of England. Rainulf Drengot was a Norman adventurer and mercenary in southern Italy. In 1030 he became the first count of Aversa. He was a member of the Drengot family. 2) Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (1849–1895) was a British statesman. He was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, and his wife, Lady Frances Vane. He was the father of Winston Churchill, the future wartime Prime Minister, who wrote his father’s first major biography.