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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 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.
- 21 August 1400 – 18 May 1410
- Beatrice of Aragon
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He was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine from the house of Wittelsbach in 1390–1398. He was the elder son of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Countess Irmengard of Oettingen. On 13 February 1338 the Palatinate was divided between Rupert II and his uncle Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria. [citation needed] After the death of his other uncle ...
Rupert (III) of Germany (1352 – 1410) Elector Palatine from 1398 and German King from 1400. Knight of the Garter. Louis III (1378 –1436) Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Louis IV (1424–1449) Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Frederick I, the Victorious (1425–1476) Elector Palatine of the Rhine, Ancestor of the morganatic House of Löwenstein ...
Frederick V (German: Friedrich; 26 August 1596 – 29 November 1632) [1] [2] was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620. He was forced to abdicate both roles, and the brevity of his reign in Bohemia earned him the derisive sobriquet " the Winter King ...
- 19 September 1610 – 23 February 1623
- Frederick IV
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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.
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 ...
