Rudolf II. (Tübingen-Herrenberg)

This article covers the Scheerer . For the Count Palatine of the same name, see Rudolf II. (Tübingen) .

Coat of arms of the Tübingen Counts of Herrenberg

Count Rudolf II of Tübingen, called the Scheerer , (* 1276 , † 1316 ) came from a branch of the Count Palatine of Tübingen and was Count von Herrenberg .

Name and family

Count Rudolf II, the Scheerer, was a son of Count Rudolf I, the Scheerer . This nickname is derived from the town of Scheer on the Danube . On November 24, 1286, Rudolf II married Luitgard (also Liugard ), the daughter of Count Ulrich von Schelklingen . King Rudolf von Habsburg attended the wedding . Their children were Ulrich, Luitgard and Adelheid, who died as a child.

Live and act

Due to high debts, Rudolf had to sell several villages and farms, especially to the Bebenhausen monastery . This enabled him to bequeath his property in Schönbuch to his descendants. He had sworn with a physical oath not to sell any of his Schönbuch forest for the benefit of himself and his heirs. During his father's lifetime he and his brother sold Kirchentellinsfurt and Wankheim to the mayor Bäht in Reutlingen .

There were always disputes with the Bebenhausen monastery about payments, new acquisitions and donations in the city of Heimsheim . Due to his constant financial shortage, in which the Bebenhausen monastery had already helped him out several times, he felt compelled in 1304 to sell further parts of Hildrizhausen to the Bebenhausen monastery, founded by his ancestors. Without the help of the monastery, the count, as he himself said, would have been forced to sell Herrenberg or the Schönbuch in order to be able to satisfy his creditors. According to Schmid , the monks of Bebenhausen tried to prevent these sales until they could no longer avoid these properties because the counts would see no way out because of their debts "than to throw themselves into the arms of the monastery".

Sale of Oberkirch and Reusten

Rudolf's wife Luitgard, the daughter of Count Ulrich von Schelklingen, notarized on August 29, 1293 that her brother-in-law, Count Eberhard von Tübingen, provided ample compensation for the right to Oberkirch and Reusten , which she had owned as a replacement or a morning gift , the Scheerer , had been assigned goods in Validstein. With the consent of her father and her husband, she then transferred her earlier claims to the Bebenhausen monastery . She promised never to contest this agreement and refrained from any legal assistance. Seals of the certificate were the Bishop of Constance Heinrich II. Von Klingenberg , Count Ulrich von Berg, her father Ulrich von Schelklingen, her husband Rudolf and her brother-in-law Eberhard and Gottfried von Tübingen-Herrenberg.

Sale of Altingen

On July 7th, 1299, Count Rudolf von Tübingen called Scheerer, with the consent of his wife "Liugard" von Schelklingen and her brothers Count Ulrich von Schelklingen and Count Heinrich von Schelklingen and all other parties involved, sold goods to the Bebenhausen monastery in Altingen with the patronage right of the local church for 700 pounds of Heller , which he had received and used to pay off debts. He expressly stipulated that the church's right of patronage would pass to the monastery with the goods, put it into possession and promised guarantee. He expressly undertook to get his children Ulrich and Liugard to confirm the contract as soon as they were of age and, under the obligation of his descendants, pledged all of his possessions. His wife Liugard, who owned the goods, renounced it in favor of the monastery and confessed that her husband had given her the village of Sindelfingen as a replacement . Both spouses waived all claims and legal remedies. At Liugard's request, the seals in this regard were Bishop Heinrich von Konstanz, her husband and her brothers, Counts Konrad , Ulrich and Heinrich von Schelklingen.

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} 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, page 264ff. (Schmid numbers him as Rudolf the Scherer II).
2. ↑ Württ. Urkundenbuch (WUB) Volume X, No. 4417, pp. 165–166 WUB online .
3. ↑ WUB Volume XI, No. 5304, pp. 284-286, WUB online .