Ruprecht (Pfalz-Veldenz)
Ruprecht von Pfalz-Veldenz (* 1506 in Zweibrücken ; † July 28, 1544 at Castle Gräfenstein ) was Count von Veldenz and founder of the Veldenz line of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken family .
Life
Ruprecht was the younger son of the Count Palatine and Duke Alexander von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1462-1514) from his marriage to Margarete (1480-1522), daughter of Count Kraft VI. from Hohenlohe in Neuenstein . In his will, Alexander had stipulated the right of birthright for the principality of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, which thus fell to Ruprecht's older brother Ludwig II of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Ruprecht was intended for the clergy. He became canon in Mainz , Cologne and Strasbourg . In addition to these dignities, his brother gave him the income from the provost of St. Remigius with the Michelsburg in 1524 , and the Lauterecken office in 1526 . In 1529 he declared his renunciation of all spiritual dignity.
After the death of his brother Ludwig, Ruprecht ran the affairs of state for his underage nephew Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken from 1533 to 1543, initially together with Wolfgang's mother Elisabeth of Hesse and from 1540, when she remarried, alone.
Like his brother Ludwig, Ruprecht was inclined to the Reformation . Ruprecht represented the ideas of the Reformation more decisively than his brother. He commissioned Johann Schwebel with the creation of a new church order for Pfalz-Zweibrücken and ordered the use of the German language in services.
In 1540 Ruprecht acquired the rule of Grevenstein (today's Graefensteiner Land ) from Count Palatine Johann II von Pfalz-Simmern , where he also introduced the Reformation.
In the Marburg Treaty of October 3, 1543 , Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , who had just been declared of legal age, left the offices of Lauterecken and Veldenz to his uncle and previous guardian Ruprecht and his descendants , as well as the office of Remigiusberg near Kusel and the Jettenbach court as their own rule. This established the Principality of Pfalz-Veldenz , which was expanded in the Heidelberg Succession Treaty in 1553 to include the County of Lützelstein , half of Guttenberg and two thirds of Alsenz , and existed until 1694.
Ruprecht died in 1544 at his Gräfenstein Castle and was buried in the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken .
Marriage and offspring
Ruprecht married Ursula (1515–1601) on June 28, 1537 , daughter of the Wild and Rhine Count Johann VII zu Salm-Kyrburg , with whom he had the following children:
- Anna (1540–1586)
- ⚭ 1558 Margrave Karl II of Baden-Durlach (1529–1577)
- Georg Johann I (1543–1592), Count of Veldenz
- ⚭ 1563 Princess Anna Maria of Sweden (1545–1610)
- Ursula (1543–1578)
- ⚭ 1578 Count Wirich VI. von Daun-Falkenstein (1539–1598)
literature
- Theodor Julius Ney: Ruprecht, Count Palatine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 740-743.
- Paul Kittel: Georg Hans (1543 - 1592) , German edition, Drulingen 2003, pp. 26–33, ISBN 2-913162-21-5
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SURNAME | Ruprecht |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veldenz, Ruprecht Count Palatine of |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Regent of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Neuburg |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1506 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zweibrücken |
DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1544 |
Place of death | Grafenstein Castle (Palatinate) |