Ruprecht IV (Nassau)

The coat of arms of the Counts of Nassau

Ruprecht IV of Nassau († after January 1, 1239) was Count of Nassau . He later became a knight of the German order .

Life

Sonnenberg Castle

Ruprecht was the second son of Count Walram I of Nassau and a certain Kunigunde, possibly a daughter of a Count of Sponheim or a daughter of Count Poppo II of Ziegenhain .

Ruprecht is mentioned for the first time in a document dated March 20, 1198, together with his mother and brother Heinrich II. This mention means that he and his brother were of legal age at that time.

Between 1198 and 1230 he is mentioned as Count of Nassau. Ruprecht ruled with his brother Heinrich.

Walram I was enfeoffed with the royal court of Wiesbaden by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . Nassau's holdings in this area were expanded around 1214 when Heinrich II received the imperial bailiwick over Wiesbaden and the surrounding Königssondergau , which he held as a fief .

Around 1200, Heinrich and Ruprecht began building Sonnenberg Castle on a rock north of Wiesbaden to protect against the Archbishop of Mainz and his vassals, the neighboring lords of Eppstein , with whom there were permanent border disputes. But the Mainz cathedral chapter claimed Sonnenberg as their property. In order to resolve this conflict, Nassau paid an amount of 30 marks to the chapter in 1221 to preserve the land of Sonnenberg. They were forced to recognize the sovereignty of the Archbishop of Mainz over Sonnenberg Castle and to take it as a fiefdom from Mainz.

Ruprecht had been a knight of the German order since 1230 . At his death in 1239 Ruprecht left his legacy to him. This led to conflicts between the House of Nassau and the Teutonic Order.

progeny

Before December 11, 1215, Ruprecht married Gertrud († around 1222), possibly a daughter of the Count of Cleeberg . No children are known from this marriage.

literature

AWE Dek: Genealogy van het Vorstenhuis Nassau . Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel 1970 (Dutch).
AA Vorsterman van Oyen: Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden dead . AW Sijthoff & JL Beijers, Leiden & Utrecht 1882 (Dutch).

Web links

Nassau in: Medieval Lands. A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families , compiled by Charles Cawley.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Dek (1970).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Cawley.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).
↑ This is mentioned in the article on Walram I on Wikipedia . The article on Ruprecht IV in the English Wikipedia says, among other things: 'Walram I had received the Königshof Wiesbaden from Emperor Frederick I in reward for his support of the emperor in the conflicts of 1170-1180.' . In the article about Sonnenberg Castle it says: 'The Nassau were probably enfeoffed with the royal court of Wiesbaden by Friedrich I as thanks for their support in the Roman trains in 1154.'
↑ Cawley quotes from a document dated December 11, 1215, in which 'Heinricus und Roppertus comites de Nassovva' acquired property of the Mainz Cathedral with the permission of 'uxorum nostrarum Methildis et Gertrudis' , from which it can be concluded that Ruprecht and Gertrud already on 11 December 1215 were married. All genealogical information relates to a marriage before 1221.

predecessor	Office	successor
Walram I.	Count of Nassau 1198–1230	Henry II

personal data
SURNAME	Ruprecht IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ruprecht IV of Nassau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Nassau and Knight of the Teutonic Order
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	after January 1, 1239

[dek-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Dek (1970).

[cawley-2] Cawley.

[vorsterman-3] Vorsterman van Oyen (1882).

[4] This is mentioned in the article on Walram I on Wikipedia . The article on Ruprecht IV in the English Wikipedia says, among other things: 'Walram I had received the Königshof Wiesbaden from Emperor Frederick I in reward for his support of the emperor in the conflicts of 1170-1180.' . In the article about Sonnenberg Castle it says: 'The Nassau were probably enfeoffed with the royal court of Wiesbaden by Friedrich I as thanks for their support in the Roman trains in 1154.'

[5] Cawley quotes from a document dated December 11, 1215, in which 'Heinricus und Roppertus comites de Nassovva' acquired property of the Mainz Cathedral with the permission of 'uxorum nostrarum Methildis et Gertrudis' , from which it can be concluded that Ruprecht and Gertrud already on 11 December 1215 were married. All genealogical information relates to a marriage before 1221.