Rudolf I (Tübingen)

This article deals with the Count Palatine. For the Scheerer see Rudolf I. (Tübingen-Herrenberg) .

Seal of the founder of Bebenhausen, Count Palatine Rudolf I of Tübingen

Count Palatine Rudolf I of Tübingen

Count Palatine Rudolf I of Tübingen (* approx. 1160; † March 17, 1219 ) was the first son of Count Palatine Hugo II. Around 1183 he founded the Premonstratensian Monastery of Bebenhausen as a family burial place.

family

In 1181 he married Mechthild , Countess of Gleiberg and heiress of Gießen († 1206). They had six children.

• Gottfried
• Rudolf II , Count Palatine of Tübingen (approx. 1185 - November 1, 1247) received rule over Horb , Herrenberg and Tübingen after his father's death .
• Hugo III (V.) (approx. 1185 - July 26, 1216)
• Wilhelm , Count of Asperg-Gießen (approx. 1190 - approx. 1252/1256)
• Elisabeth, nun in the monastery of St. Margarethen zu Waldkirch
• NN, ∞ Gottfried II ., Margrave of Ronsberg († 1208)

Burial place

Grave slab of Count Palatine Rudolf I in the Bebenhausen monastery

Rudolf initially had the Premonstratensian order settle in Bebenhausen , presumably because this order allowed lay people to be buried in their monasteries and Rudolf also wanted to find a burial place for himself. In 1190 the monastery passed to the Cistercian order . Rudolf and his wife Mechthild are buried in the chapter house of the Bebenhausen monastery, although the Cistercians actually did not allow such a burial place according to their order rules. Perhaps for this reason the grave is adorned with an unadorned grave slab without an inscription, which is unusual for a man of his class and importance.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prince Friedrich Karl zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, About the seals of the Count Palatine of Tübingen, Stuttgart, 1862
2. ↑ Ludwig Schmid: History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen: after mostly ungedr. Sources, together with document book; e. Contribution to schwäb. U. German history.
3. ^ Martin Hiebl: Mechthild von Giessen.
4. ↑ Schmid only mentions three children.
5. ^ Bebenhausen: Count Palatine Rudolph I of Tübingen (d. 1219)