Rudolf von Pfullendorf
Rudolf von Pfullendorf (* around 1100/1110; † January 9, 1181 in Jerusalem ) was Count von Ramsberg , later Count von Pfullendorf , was also called Count of Bregenz and Count of Lindau and was Vogt of Sankt Gallen .
Rudolf was the son of Count Ulrich von Ramsberg and Adelheid von Bregenz, daughter of Count Ulrich X. von Bregenz. The Pfullendorfer counts were a branch line of the Udalrichinger .
Around 1150 Rudolf married a sister of Duke Welf VII and daughter of Duke Welf VI. named Elisabeth (* around 1130/35; † 1164/80). She was a cousin of Duke Heinrich the Lion and Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa .
Count Rudolf, first mentioned when the Salem Monastery was founded, became a party member of the later Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa from 1152 . This enabled him to expand his family's power base in Linzgau to include the rulers of Bregenz and Lindau, Rheineck Castle in the Alpine Rhine Valley , the Bailiwick of the Chur diocese and the St. Gallen Abbey .
In 1155 he moved his seat from Ramsberg Castle to Pfullendorf , built a castle in the area of today's old town and from then on called himself Count Rudolf von Pfullenberg. A market settlement of farmers and craftsmen developed around the castle on the Pfullendorfer Molasse rock .
His only son Berthold (* around 1150) died in 1167 during the fourth Italian campaign of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, when malaria decimated his knight army. He thus shared the fate of his father-in-law Welf VI. who also lost his only son Welf VII there . Later both sexes died out in the male line.
His daughter Ita (* around 1151/52; † before 1191) is named in a genealogy created around 1160 in the Habsburg monastery in Muri as filia sororis ducis Welph (daughter of the sister of Duke Welf). She married the Count of Habsburg Albrecht III in 1164 . and was thus the great-grandmother of Rudolf I of Habsburg , the first Roman-German king of the Habsburg dynasty.
When Rudolf's father-in-law Welf VI. In 1178 he sold his property to Frederick I Barbarossa under a contract of inheritance, Rudolf also transferred a large part of his inheritance to the Hohenstaufen family.
In 1180 Count Rudolf went to the Holy Land as a pilgrim, where he died on January 9th, 1181 according to the St. Gallen Nekrolog .
literature
- Marie-Luise Favreau: To the pilgrimage of Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf. An ignored original letter from 1180 . In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine . NF 84 = 123rd year 1975; Pp. 31-45
- Peter Hommers: City of Pfullendorf in Linzgau on Lake Constance , Pfullendorf 1970
- Peter Hommers: 750 years of the city of Pfullendorf . 1970
- Rainer Jehl (Ed.): Welf VI., Scientific Colloquium on the 800th year of death from October 5 to 8, 1991 in the Swabian Education Center Irse . Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen 1994. Pages 46-49, 51, 55, 78
- Karl Schmid: Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf and Emperor Friedrich I. Freiburg im Breisgau 1954
Web links
- Rudolfus comes de Pfullendorf in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
- Werner Robl: Count Rudolf von Pfullendorf. A knight's life. PDF 6,477 KB
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armin Wolf: Welf VI. - Last of the Swabian Guelphs or progenitor of the kings? In: Rainer Jehl (Ed.): Welf VI. Scientific colloquium for the 800th year of Welf's death VI. in the Schwäbisches Bildungszentrum Irsee from October 5 to 8, 1991. Sigmaringen 1994, pp. 43–58, here: p. 47.
- ↑ Genealogia norstrorum principum . Image on e-codices.unifr.ch.
- ↑ Did you know that… . In: Südkurier of November 24, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rudolf von Pfullendorf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rudolfus comes de Pfullendorf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Ramsperg, Pfullendorf, Bregenz, Lindau and Vogt of Sankt Gallen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1100 or around 1110 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1181 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |