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5 days ago · Rudolf I was King of Germany for most of two decades in the latter part of the 13th Century. He was the first king from the House of Habsburg. He was born on May 1, 1218, at Limburgh Castle, in what is now the Breisgau region of southwest Germany. His father was Albert IV, Count of Habsburg, and his mother was Hedwig of Kyburg.
Rudolf I or Rudolf of Hapsburg ro͞oˈdŏlf [key], 1218–91, German king (1273–91), first king of the Hapsburg dynasty. Rudolf's election as king ended the interregnum (1250–73), during which time there was no accepted German king or Holy Roman
Rudolf I was the first king of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death. Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum which had begun after the death of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II in 1250.
The history of the Habsburg monarchy can be traced back to the election of Rudolf I as King of Germany in 1273 and his acquisition of the Duchy of Austria for the Habsburgs in 1282. In 1482, Maximilian I acquired the Netherlands through marriage.
Rudolf I. Roman-German king from 1273. Born at Burg Limburg near Sasbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on 1 May 1218. Died in Speyer, Germany on 15 July 1291. Motto: ‘Utrum lubet – Whichever you please’. Count Rudolf of Habsburg was the first Habsburg on the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. With him, the Habsburgs moved from their ...
Rudolf I: The progenitor. It is with Rudolf that most of the Habsburg genealogical trees start. He is regarded as the forefather of the dynasty, even though by that time the family already belonged to the established aristocracy of Swabia. Rudolf was thus no newcomer who had arrived out of nowhere.
Rudolf I was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death in 1291.
