Ruprecht Pipan

Tomb in St. Martin, Amberg

Ruprecht Pipan (born February 20, 1375 in Amberg ; † January 25, 1397 ibid) was Prince Elector of the Palatinate and son of Prince Elector Ruprecht III. von der Pfalz (from 1400 also Roman-German King) and his wife Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nuremberg .

As a child, the heir to the throne was betrothed to Princess Katharina, daughter of King Charles V of France in 1379 , but the marriage did not take place. At this engagement Ruprecht Pipan was already recognized by the ruling Palatine Elector Ruprecht I , his great-great-uncle, as future heir to the throne and universal heir; after his death, confirmed again in 1392.

Ruprecht Pipan joined the Hungarians in the battle of Nicopolis against the Ottomans in 1396 . He returned sick and died in Amberg at the age of 21.

Ruprecht Pipan was buried in the St. Martins Church in Amberg ; his magnificent grave is preserved there.

There were no descendants from his marriage to Elisabeth von Sponheim . Elisabeth was the last countess on the Sponheim-Kreuznach line (Vordere Grafschaft). Until her death in 1417, she often stayed at the court of her father-in-law and bequeathed 1/5 of the Vordere Grafschaft Sponheim to the Electoral Palatinate.

literature

• Johann Goswin Widder : Collection of all known think-show-other coins of the most transparent Palatinate house , 1785 Detailed biography as a scan from this book.

Web links

• geneanet.org
• Side of the parish with the image of the Tumba
• Historical website with its own illustrated section on the grave of Prince Ruprecht Pipan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source on engagement and determination as heir to the throne
2. ↑ Page of the parish with the picture of the high grave ( memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.