Rudolf I (Habsburg)

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Rudolf von Habsburg , actually Rudolf von Altenburg , (* 985/990; † around 1063, before March 1, 1064, buried in the Ottmarsheim Abbey Church ), as Rudolf I, was a count of the Habsburg dynasty .

He did not yet include the addition of Habsburg . He is not to be confused with the German King Rudolf I , who lived in the 13th century.

Life

Ottmarsheim abbey church , foundation and burial place of Rudolf von Altenburg

family

His grandfather was probably Guntram the Rich , his father Lanzelin and his (probably older) brother Radbot (* 985), the builder of the Habsburg ; however, the genealogy of the early Habsburgs is not clearly established.

Rudolf I was married to Kunigunde; she was possibly the daughter of Ezzonen Duke Kuno of Bavaria , the nephew of Duke Otto II. The widowed Kunigunde appears in a document from 1049, where King Heinrich at her request made a donation from her husband Rudolf and herself to the Ottmarsheim monastery confirmed.

activities

Rudolf was probably a landgrave in an Alemannic area from around 985 and until 1063, possibly in Klettgau or Breisgau , but perhaps also in Thurgau and the county of Aargau .

Rudolf was possibly one of the two commanders of the papal army that fought against the Normans of Sicily in Civitella in 1053 .

Rudolf built the monastery of St. Mary in Ottmarsheim on his own property and with his own means. He founded the nunnery of the monastery, left the Romanesque monastery church of Pope Leo IX. inaugurate and subordinate the abbey to the Holy Roman Church.

The name "von Altenburg" refers to Altenburg Castle , which was built in the walls of a small Roman fort near the town of Brugg in Aargau. Nearby is the Habsburg , which Altenburg soon replaced as the seat of the early Habsburgs. Rudolf had a dispute with his older brother Radbot about what could have been a cause for the building of the Habsburgs.

During Rudolf's lifetime, the Habsburgs founded the Muri monastery in Aargau as a house monastery.

literature

  • Martin Kiem , (Ed.) Acta Murensia. in: Sources on Swiss History III., Basel 1883
  • Rusten Heer , Anonymus Murensis denudatus et ad locum suum restitutus, sive Acta fundationis monasterii Murensis denuo examinata. Accessit Chronicon Bürglense . Friburgi Brisgoviae, 1755

Web links

  • Who was Rudolf? , from The ancestors of the Habsburgs , exhibition cover, p. 48 (PDF, 72 kB; on habsburg.net)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kuno was in 1049 by Henry II. To the Duke of Bavaria were collected.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolf von Habsburg; Rudolf von Altenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count from the Habsburg family
DATE OF BIRTH between 985 and 990
DATE OF DEATH around 1063