Ancestral Trails 2016 » Ruprecht von der PFALZ II (1325-1398)

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• Hij is geboren op 12 mei 1325 in Amberg, Oberpfalz, Bayern, Germany.
• Titel: Elector Palatine of the Rhine
• Hij is overleden op 6 januari 1398 in Amberg, Oberpfalz, Bayern, Germany, hij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Adolf von der PFALZ en Irmengard von OETTINGEN

Gezin van Ruprecht von der PFALZ II

Hij is getrouwd met Beatrix de SICILY.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1345, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Friedrich von der PFALZ  1347-1395
2. Johann von der PFALZ  1349-± 1395
3. Mechtild von der PFALZ  1350-????
4. Anna von der PFALZ  1346-1415 
5. Elizabeth von der PFALZ  1351-1401
6. Ruprecht von der PFALZ  1352-1410 

Notities over Ruprecht von der PFALZ II

Ruprecht II , the hard or the serious (12 May 1325 in Amberg - 6 January 1398) was Pfalzgraf and Elector of the Palatinate (1390-1398).

His parents were Pfalzgraf Adolf the Redliche and Princess Irmengard von Oettingen . Ruprechts father Adolf had died in 1327 in the vain struggle for his inheritance. His uncle Ludwig the Bavarian was then occupied by the Rheinpfalz. The young prince grew up under the tutelage of his Austrian-minded uncle, Count Johann I of Nassau-Weilburg . In the year 1329 Pavia came to the balance between Ludwig the Bavarian and Adolf's brothers Rudolf II and Ruprecht I. In the place of his deceased father Palgrafgraf Adolf the four-year-old Ruprecht II entered the inheritance.

In 1334, Ruprecht I, with his nephew Neuprecht II, agreed that, in the case of a division with Rudolf II, they wanted to possess and manage the coinciding pieces together. In February 1338, when the first part of the Palatinate was divided, the largest part of the Rhine Palatinate was assigned to them together with Heidelberg and a piece of Upper Palatinate . They ruled these territories by the end of 1353, when a new division of the country took place after the death of Rudolf II. Here Ruprecht I. received only a minor part of the entire territory, including Rudolf's former territory, including the more important places of Lindenfels , Alzey , Stromberg (Hunsrück), and Stahleck Castle. In 1355, Ruprecht II advanced to succeed his uncle Ruprecht I., if he remained without a male heir. This agreement was confirmed in 1357; In 1368 both agreed on the future indivisibility of most of the territories, and the nephew rose to co-regent. In this capacity, he participated in the founding of the University of Heidelberg by his Uncle Ruprecht I and was also depicted on the historical university seal of 1386.

In 1390, after the death of his uncle, Ruprecht II succeeded as successor to the Palatine of the entire state, and declared himself in 1394, with the consent of King Wenceslas , also as elector. He remained only seven years of his life as a sole government.

In 1391, Ruprecht expelled Jews and heretics from the Palatinate, confiscated the entire property and bequeathed it to the University of Heidelberg . In 1395 he enacted the so-called Rupertine constitution , which was to ensure the cohesion of the parts of the Palatinate. This included the former free Reichsstadt Neckargemünd in the Kurpfalz.

Ruprecht II is buried in the Cistercian monastery of Schönau near Heidelberg . His will reveals an attitude of humility, as Werner Rösener notes in his book "Tradition and Memory of Adopted and Peasant Society" (2003). The Wittelsbacher wanted to be buried in a simple linen garb with a stone or clod under his head, in a tomb that does not rise above the ground, covered by a simple plate with the cross and located at the foot of the grave of his father Adolf.

In the memorial church of the Wittelsbach (Neustadt an der Weinstraße) , Elector Ruprecht II and his wife Beatrix of Sicily-Aragon have an eternal memory.

The historian Jakob Wille judges the Prince as follows

" Undoubtedly, Ruprecht II, like his uncle, was a man of great energy, purposeful pursuit, and clever calculating sense; in a long, common government with the experienced old Ruprecht, he was well trained in political affairs, engaged in the empire, as well as in the administration of his own state, to whom he was able to acquire what he had acquired, and to acquire new possessions. Mildness and conciliation, which belonged to his uncle, were wanting him. He makes the impression of a cold, domineering nature, and the epithet of "hardness" which history has secured for him, best characterizes his essence. "
- Jacob Wille, General German Biography, Volume 29

Marriage and Descendants
Elector Ruprecht II of the Palatinate married 1345 Beatrix of Sicily-Aragon (1326-1365), the daughter of King Peter II of Sicily from the house of Aragon and his wife Elisabeth of Carinthia. Seven children emerged from the marriage:

Anna (1346-1408) ∞ 1360 Duke William II of Berg
Friedrich (1347-1395)
Johann (1349-1395)
Mechthild (1350-1378) ∞ 1378 Count Sigost von Leuchtenberg
Elisabeth (1351-1401), engaged with the Burggraf Albrecht of Nuremberg
Ruprecht III. (1352-1410) ∞ 1374 Burggräfin Elisabeth of Hohenzollern-Nuremberg (1358-1411)
Adolf (1355-1358), buried in the monastery Liebenau, Worms

Ruprecht II had been widowed and married for more than 30 years. From this time he had an illegitimate daughter named Else von Stromberg , who had lived as a Dominican at the Monastery of Liebenau in Worms since 1392.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruprecht_II._(Pfalz)

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