Forældre: Greve Christian Benedictus Johan Ludvig Conrad Ferdinand R. til Aggerupgaard og til Fideikommisgodserne Koppel og Varste-Polle i Hannover (1845-1922 ) og Sophie Pauline Schjær (1850-1924).
Gift 4. Nov. 1910 i Kbh. (Holmens) med Else Sophie Nathalie Bardenfleth, f. 2. Jan. 1884 i Kbh. (Holmens), D. af Kaptajn, senere Kontreadmiral, Kammerherre Frederik B. (1846-1935) og Hustru.
Cand jur 1908. Ansat i Udenrigsministeriet med poster som legationssekretær i Berlin, Paris, Stockholm og London. 1919 Kontorchef i Udenrigsministeriet, 1923 Direktør. 1932 Gesandt i Stockholm og fra 1938 Gesandt i London. Blev i 1942 afskediget, men fortsat accepteret af den britiske regering. 1945 formelt genindsat som Gesandt og i 1947 udnævnt til Ambassadør.
was the elder son of Michael VIII Palaeologus, whom he succeeded in 1282. He ruled until 1328. He allowed the fleet, which his father had organized, to fall into decay; and the empire was thus less able than ever to resist the exacting demands of the rival powers of Venice and Genoa. During his reign the Ottoman Turks under Osman conquered nearly the whole of Bithynia; and to resist them the emperor called in the aid of the Catalan Roger de Flor, who commanded a body of Aragonese and Catalan adventurers known as Almogavars. The Turks were defeated, but Roger was found to be nearly as formidable an enemy to the imperial power. He was assassinated by Andronicus`s son and colleague (sometimes referred to as emperor Michael IX, though he never ruled in his own name