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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.
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 ...
May 14, 2024 · Rupert (born May 5, 1352, Amberg, Rhenish Palatinate [Germany]—died May 18, 1410, near Oppenheim, Rhenish Palatinate) was a German king from 1400 and, as Rupert III, elector Palatine of the Rhine from 1398. A member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, he was chosen king by the German ecclesiastical electors on Aug. 22, 1400, to succeed Wenceslas, who ...
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Dec 17, 2013 · Prince Rupert, Count Palatinate. by Gerrit van Honthorst. Oil on panel, feigned oval, circa 1641-1642 29 1/4 in. x 23 1/4 in. (743 mm x 591 mm).
May 23, 2018 · The nephew of Rupert i, Rupert ii (1390–98), and his son Rupert iii (1398–1410), king of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor (1400), expelled Jews from the Palatinate. In the course of the 14 th and 15 th centuries, however, Jews expelled from German cities managed to return and to settle in the villages of the Palatinate.
Rupert soon realised that it was not, and ordered a withdrawal, which he covered from the south west of the city, where he fought the first battle of the war, at Powick Bridge (23 September 1642), a small battle, with only 1,000 men on each side, which Rupert won with a cavalry charge, much enhancing his own reputation on both sides.
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The next month Rupert took England’s second largest city by storm. In 14 vicious hours of fighting on July 26, 1643, the 23-year-old Royalist commander, leading each well-coordinated major attack on the town’s defenses, captured Bristol, giving his king a major port and a vital bastion in the West Country.
