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Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) 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. Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum which had begun after the death of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II in 1250.
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Apr 30, 2024 · Rudolf I (born May 1, 1218, Limburg-im-Breisgau [Germany]—died July 15, 1291, Speyer) was the first German king of the Habsburg dynasty. A son of Albert IV, Count of Habsburg, Rudolf on the occasion of his father’s death ( c. 1239) inherited lands in upper Alsace, the Aargau, and Breisgau. A partisan of the Hohenstaufen Holy Roman emperor ...
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Rudolf was elected head of the Empire in Frankfurt on 1 October 1273. His coronation took place in Aix-la-Chapelle on 24 October. His election came as a surprise to him, as he was not among the most powerful princes of the Empire. King Ottokar II Přemysl of Bohemia (c. 1232–1278) was by far the most important of the electors and regarded ...
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Amongst the competitors was Count Rudolf of Habsburg, who had assumed his father Albrecht’s inheritance in 1240 and ruled over a domain made up of scattered areas between the Alps, the Black Forest, and the Vosges. Military force was a customary means of maintaining his supremacy. By the 1260s, far from being a ‘poor count’, he was the ...
Jun 11, 2018 · Rudolf I. Rudolf I (ca. 1218-1291), or Rudolf of Hapsburg, was Holy Roman emperor-elect from 1273 to 1291. He was the first of a long line of Hapsburg emperors. The struggle between the emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV had shattered the power of the imperial office in both Germany and Italy. The "emperors" who reigned between 1250 and ...
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. The lineage can be traced back to the late tenth century: Guntram the ...
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.
