Rupert I (Limburg Monastery)

Rupert I (*?, Worms ; † around 1130) was abbot of the Limburg monastery since 1124 .

Rupert received training in Paris and then entered the Benedictine monastery of Limburg under Abbot Erchenbert (after 1090 to 1107) . In 1124 he became abbot of this monastery.

Scholarly and rigorously against himself and others in monastic life, he polarized the monastic community. His internal opponents sought help from the Bishop of Speyer , who finally removed him from his office and banished him to the Breitenau monastery (today: Breitenau , part of the community of Guxhagen ). The abbot there, however, soon asked the bishop to take Rupert back, because his polarizing manner was now disrupting life in the Breitenau monastery. So he returned to Limburg within a year and retained the office of abbot.

In the dispute with the Bishop of Speyer, he referred to his divine mandate announced to him through visions . He was also devoted to the supernatural and dealt with necromancy .

During the tenure Rupert I. came in 1128 to a first, multi-week military siege of the monastery, a foundation Conrad II. And Salian was home. When Heinrich V († 1125), the last Salier, died without male descendants, military disputes broke out between his next male heirs from the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the elected king , Lothar III. The siege of the monastery held by Hohenstaufen troops by Saxon troops failed, however.

Around 1130, Abbot Walther was appointed as the successor to Rupert I, probably after his death.

literature

Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg ad Hardt monastery. A construction science and historical treatise . Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V.
Jens Werner: Monastery of the Holy Cross. Limburg . Bad Dürkheim 1993.

Remarks

↑ The older research (see Manchot, p. 15, note 2) partly assumed that the abbots Rupert I and Rupert II were the same person, and therefore dated Rupert I's death to 1150.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jens Werner: Monastery of the Holy Cross. Limburg . Bad Dürkheim 1993. p. 70
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg monastery ad Hardt. A construction science and historical treatise. Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V., p. 12.
^ ^A ^b Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg ad Hardt monastery. A construction science and historical treatise. Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V., p. 15.

personal data
SURNAME	Rupert I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbot of the Limburg ad Haardt monastery
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Worms
DATE OF DEATH	around 1130

[4] The older research (see Manchot, p. 15, note 2) partly assumed that the abbots Rupert I and Rupert II were the same person, and therefore dated Rupert I's death to 1150.

[werner_70-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jens Werner: Monastery of the Holy Cross. Limburg . Bad Dürkheim 1993. p. 70

[manchot_12-2] Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg monastery ad Hardt. A construction science and historical treatise. Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V., p. 12.

[manchot_15-3] A ^b Wilhelm Manchot: History of the Limburg ad Hardt monastery. A construction science and historical treatise. Mannheim 1892. Reprinted by: Aktion Limburg e. V., p. 15.