Ruprecht III. (Nassau)

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Ruprecht III. the disputable from Nassau (also Rupert III. ) († 23/28 December 1191 ) was a Count of Nassau from the same family . He appeared in particular through his general political activity as a follower of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa and took part in the Third Crusade .

Life

Nassau Castle

Ruprecht was probably a son of Count Arnold II von Laurenburg ; his mother is unknown. Unlike his father, he did not name himself after Laurenburg Castle , but after Nassau Castle .

Ruprecht is mentioned as Count of Nassau between 1160 and 1190. He ruled with his cousin Heinrich I and later with his cousin Walram I.

Ruprecht was one of the trusted counselors of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa , in whose vicinity we usually find him. In 1161 and 1162 he was with the emperor before Milan ; Whether he took part in the further trains to Italy in 1166 and 1167 remains doubtful; Likewise, participation in the unfortunate procession from 1174–1176 is, although probable, but not verifiable. It can also be assumed that he was not absent from Emperor Friedrich's famous Mainz court conference in 1184 .

Ruprecht was Vogt of Schönau Monastery in 1172 and Vogt of Koblenz from 1182 . It is mentioned as Ruoberdus comes in the inscription of a coin dated around 1175, which describes Siegen as civitas .

Rupert and his cousin Walram took part in the Third Crusade under Emperor Friedrich and in 1190 led the fourth army. With his cousin Walram and Count Heinrich von Diez, he accompanied Bishop Hermann II of Munster, who was delegated to Emperor Isaac II Angelos towards the end of 1188 . The embassy, ​​which reached Constantinople , was treated with hostility by the Byzantine emperor and held captive. They were released as the crusade army approached. On October 28, 1189, Rupert and his fellow sufferers met again with the Kreuzheer before Philippopel . Certainly nothing is known about his further involvement in the crusade; it appears that he held out until after Acre was captured and then died on the return voyage at sea. His son Hermann was his successor.

progeny

Ruprecht may have married a daughter of Wilhelm von Gleiberg, Count von Gießen , first.
Ruprecht married in or before 1169 with Elisabeth von Leiningen († June 20, around 1235/38), a daughter of Count Emich III. As a widow, she used the title Countess von Schaumburg . He had two children with her:

  1. Hermann († July 16, before 1206), Count of Nassau 1190–1192, later Canon of Mainz .
  2. Lukardis († before 1222); ⚭ before February 27, 1204 Count Hermann V (III.) Von Virneburg († after 1254).

literature

  • AWE Dek: Genealogy van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel 1970 (Dutch).
  • HFJ Hesselfelt: De oudste generaties van het Huis Nassau . In: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde . No. 11 , 1965, pp. 354-365 (Dutch).
  • Alfred Lück: Siegerland and Nederland . 2nd Edition. Siegerländer Heimatverein eV, Siegen 1981.
  • Wilhelm Sauer:  Ruprecht III., Count of Laurenburg-Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 730 f.
  • Wilhelm Sauer:  Count Walram I of Nassau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 776-778.
  • Kenneth M. Setton, Harry W. Hazard, Robert Lee Wolff, Norman P. Zacour, Marshall Whithed Baldwin: A History of the Crusades: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311 . Revised 2005. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1969 (English).
  • AA Vorsterman van Oyen: Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden dead . AW Sijthoff & JL Beijers, Leiden & Utrecht 1882 (Dutch).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dek (1970).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Hesselfelt (1965).
  3. ↑ a b c d Sauer (1889).
  4. ↑ a b c Cawley (Nassau).
  5. ↑ Our Crown - Volume 1 . Vorländer Verlag, 1983, p. 15 .
  6. ↑ Lück (1981), p. 18.
  7. ↑ a b Sauer (1896).
  8. ↑ Setton, et al. (2005), p. 896.
  9. ↑ a b Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
  10. ^ Gislebert von Mons : Chronicon Hanoniense . In: Wilhelm Arndt (Ed.): Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS . tape 21 , 1869, pp. 579 .
  11. ↑ This possible marriage is not mentioned by Cawley (Nassau).
  12. ^ Cawley (Palatinate).
  13. ↑ According to Cawley (Palatinate) she was not a daughter of Count Emich III. von Leiningen, but his brother, whose name is unknown.
  14. ↑ Dek (1970) and Hesselfelt (1965) mention that Lukardis was first married around 1200 to Gebhard IV. Von Querfurt, Burgrave of Magdeburg († Querfurt, 1213) and then in 1214 to Count Hermann V. von Virneburg. In an earlier version, Cawley (Nassau) stated that there was reasonable doubt as to whether Lukardis was first married to Gebhard von Querfurt. In view of the date of a document (February 27, 1204) in which Lukardis' mother sells owners with the permission of Hermann von Virneburg and his wife, Lukardis and Hermann cannot have married until 1214. And since Gebhard von Querfurt only died in 1213, a marriage with Lukardis is very unlikely. The first marriage has since been completely removed from Cawley's website. Vorsterman van Oyen (1882) only mentions Lukardis' marriage to Count Hermann von Virneburg.
predecessor Office successor
- Count of Nassau
1160–1190 		Hermann
personal data
SURNAME Ruprecht III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nassau
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1191 or December 28, 1191