Ruprecht von Laurenburg

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Ruprecht von Laurenburg (disambiguation) .

Ruprecht , also Rupert or Robert , (* around 1050, † around 1110) was a count in the Siegerland in 1097 and from 1079 to 1089 Archbishop-Mainzian Vogt in Siegen . Count of Laurenburg .

family

Ruprecht was Vogt of the Prince Archbishopric of Mainz in Siegen from 1079 to 1089 , at that time a hereditary office that passed to his son Dudo. Ruprecht had at least three sons: Dudo , Udalrich (Ulrich) and Drutwin III. Mr. von Miehlen . He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the Nassau family . The line of Otto III. von Wettergau of the House of Nassau ends around 1124 with his death. The Counts Rupert or Ruprecht (1124–1152) and Arnold von Laurenburg (1124–1148), sons of Count Dudo, took possession of Nassau Castle around 1120.

literature

• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 2nd, improved edition. CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33290-0 (Nassau, p. 448.).
• Roland WL Puhl: The Engersgau. In: Gaue and Counties. SDV, Saarbrücken 1999, ISBN 3-930843-48-X .
• Wolfgang Hartmann: From the Main to Trifels Castle, from Hirsau Monastery to Naumburg Cathedral: on the traces of the Franconian noble family of the Reginbodonen. Aschaffenburg History and Art Association, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-098-5 . (Publications of the History and Art Association Aschaffenburg eV 52)

Web links

• The regents of our homeland on niederscheld.de
• Nassauische Annalen - Yearbook of the Society for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research. Volume 66.Wiesbaden 1955.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beginnings of the Nassau counties on hoeckmann.de, accessed on November 27, 2013.
2. ↑ Who were the ancestors of Count Dudo von Laurenburg? ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 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. on laurenburg.de, accessed on November 27, 2013 (PDF, p. 26ff .; 1.4 MB) 
3. ↑ Bernhard Peter: Origins of the Nassauer on welt-der-wappen.de, accessed on November 27, 2013.

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Count of Laurenburg possibly until 1093	Dudo