Rudolf I (Tübingen-Herrenberg)

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Rudolf I the Scheerer († May 12, 1277 in Vienna ) was Count of Tübingen in Herrenberg and Vogt of Sindelfingen . At a young age he was called Rudolf III. from Tübingen .

Name and family

Count Rudolf I the Scheerer was the younger son of Count Palatine Rudolf II of Tübingen and a daughter of Margrave Heinrich from the von Ronsberg family .

In contrast to his father of the same name, he often used the nickname Scheerer after the town of Scheer on the Danube . He also called himself sometimes, especially on his seals, "son of the Count Palatine", d. H. Son of Rudolf II. Like Count Palatine Hugo IV. The progenitor of the Horber family , Rudolf is the progenitor of the Herrenberg line of the Count Palatine of Tübingen, whose members named themselves Scheerer after him.

He was in his first marriage with a name unknown wife from the House of Württemberg , a sister of I. Ulrich Graf married. In his second marriage he married Adelheid, daughter of Count Eberhard von Eberstein . He had the following children:

  1. Ludwig the Scheerer
  2. Rudolf II the Scheerer
  3. Eberhard the Scheerer († April 21, 1302)
  4. Hugo († 1277)
  5. Uta († after 1302) ∞ Hermann II. Von Geroldseck († July 2, 1298, killed near Göllheim )
  6. Agnes, heiress of Blaubeuren , ∞ Count Ulrich II. Von Helfenstein († after May 17, 1294)

Live and act

He appeared for the first time on July 1, 1251 as an independent count in matters relating to his brother-in-law, Count "Ulrich von Wirtemberg". When he acquired Wittlingen Castle near Urach from Bishop Eberhard II of Waldburg from Constance , he made the “Scheerer” described here and his two cousins, Counts Rudolf and Ulrich von Asperg , guarantors in the event of his death.

After the death of his brother, Count Palatine Hugo IV. († around 1267), Rudolf took over the guardianship of his sons, and probably as a result of this the guardianship of the Blaubeuren monastery . He then also carried the title of Count Palatine. According to a document dated December 24, 1267, he soon resigned the abovementioned bailiwick. He had taken over the guardianship of the Sindelfingen monastery from his father Rudolf II, to whose rule the village of Sindelfingen belonged.

Little is known of his participation in the political upheaval processes of his time: In 1262 he met with many other greats and gentlemen of Swabia at the ten-year-old Staufer Duke Konradin in Constance. In a document issued there, he bore the title of Count Palatine and headed the Count. After Count Rudolf von Habsburg had ascended the German royal throne, Rudolf I the Scheerer and his relatives from the Horber and Asperger lines sided with him. Rudolf was with the king in Nuremberg in January 1276.

According to the Sindelfingen Chronicle, Rudolf the Scheerer died on May 12, 1277 in Vienna . This indicates that he had previously taken part in King Rudolf's campaign against Ottokar of Böhmen and had stayed with Rudolf in Vienna with other Swabian lords after his submission. However, he did not take the Count Palatine of Tübingen into account when setting up imperial bailiffs and instead appointed his brother-in-law Albrecht von Hohenberg as bailiff in Lower Swabia.

Like his grandfather and his wife Adelheid, who died before him, he found his final resting place in the Bebenhausen monastery, which he favored . On May 28, 1277, his body, which had previously been transferred from Vienna, was buried there.

literature

  • Ludwig Schmid : History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen, according to mostly unpublished sources, together with the document book. A contribution to Swabian and German history . Fues, Tübingen 1853 ( digitized in the Google book search)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ludwig Schmid : History of the Count Palatine of Tübingen . Fues, Tübingen 1853, pp. 175–191, quoted by Manfred Hiebl .
  2. ↑ Source: Württ. Urkundenbuch (WUB) Volume IV, No. 1204, pp. 271–274 WUB online .
  3. ↑ WUB Volume IV, No. 1204, pp. 271-274 WUB online .
  4. ↑ WUB Volume VI, No. 1961, pp. 352-354 WUB online .
personal data
SURNAME Rudolf I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolf I the Scheerer; Rudolf III. from Tübingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Tübingen in Herrenberg and Vogt of Sindelfingen
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1277
Place of death Vienna