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Rupert, King of the Romans. House. Wittelsbach. Father. Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Mother. Irmengard of Oettingen. Rupert II, Count Palatine of the Rhine ( German: Ruprecht II., der Harte (der Ernste)) (12 May 1325, Amberg – 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398.
Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325-1398) "Rupert II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (German: Ruprecht II., der Harte (der Ernste)) (12 May 1325, Amberg – 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398.
Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun.
Apr 27, 2022 · Rupert II, Elector Palatine Rupert II of the Rhine (German: Ruprecht II., der Harte (der Ernste)) (12 May 1325, Amberg – 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398.
- Amberg, Pfalz-Neuburg
- May 12, 1325
- "Rupert"
- Amberg, Pfalz-Neuburg, Deutschland (HRR)
Rupert II (German: Ruprecht II.) (12 May 1325 - 6 January 1398) was the Elector Palatine from 1390 until 1398. Rupert was born in Amberg in 1325 as the eldest son of the Elector Palatine Adolph. After the death of his father, his uncles Rudolph II and Rupert I took up the claims of their branch...
Rupert I "the Red", Elector Palatine ( German: Ruprecht der Rote; 9 June 1309, Wolfratshausen – 16 February 1390, Neustadt an der Weinstraße) was Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1353 to 1356, and Elector Palatine from 10 January 1356 to 16 February 1390. He was the son of Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria and Mechtild of Nassau, the daughter of ...
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Biography Of Bavaria; house of Wittelsbach, son of Rupert II and Beatrix of Sicily (qq.v.); Elector Palatine from 1389, Emperor of Germany from 1400; married Elizabeth of Nuremberg (q.v.), by whom he had six sons, of whom the third, his successor Ludwig III (q.v.), succeeded him in the Palatinate alone, the fourth, John, succeeded in Neumarck, the fifth, Stephen, in Simmern, and Otto in ...
