Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern (1420–1478)

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Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern (* 1420 ; † October 17, 1478 in Zabern ) was Bishop of Strasbourg from 1440 to 1478 .

Origin and family

Ruprecht was born in 1420 as the grandson of the German King Ruprecht I and was the second son of Stefan von Pfalz-Simmern and his wife Anna von Veldenz .

The founder of the Simmern-Zweibrücken line was Count Palatine Stefan . He was born around 1385 as the third son of King Ruprecht. In 1410 he married Anna von Veldenz , the heir to the county of the same name (and half of the county of Sponheim ). It was already clear at the time of the marriage that this inheritance would fall to Stefan (or his children) if the last Count of Veldenz died. In 1459 his sons Friedrich and Ludwig divided the paternal property again. Ludwig received the Duchy of Zweibrücken and the Veldenzian inheritance and founded the Palatinate-Zweibrücken line . Friedrich I received the Principality of Simmern and the share of the County of Sponheim from the Veldenzer legacy, which he ruled from Kastellaun since 1444, after the death of the last Veldenzer . He is therefore the actual founder of the Pfalz-Simmern line.

Live and act

From 1432 to 1436 he appears as a canon in the Diocese of Trier , and in 1436 in Mainz . From 1436 to 1438 he was provost of the St. Guido monastery in Speyer , and in 1437 he received a canon praise in Cologne .

He studied in Heidelberg in 1438/39 and became provost of the cathedral in Strasbourg in 1440 . Konrad von Bussnang , who was elected Bishop of Strasbourg in 1439 , appointed him coadjutor and resigned in 1440 for a lifelong pension. Felix V approved Ruprecht's appointment as Bishop of Strasbourg, this decision was confirmed by Pope Eugene IV . Ruprecht was only able to move into his episcopal city in 1449. Politically, he leaned on the Electoral Palatinate and signed an alliance agreement with Elector Friedrich I. The reform of the clergy in the diocese was only partially successful. Ruprecht modernized the bishopric in the sense of a secular territorial state, but his high tax demands met with resistance.

literature

predecessor Office successor
Conrad IV of Bussnang Bishop of Strasbourg
1440–1478 		Albrecht of Pfalz-Mosbach

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Extract from the article about Pfalz-Simmern
personal data
SURNAME Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruprecht of Bavaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Strasbourg (1440–1478)
DATE OF BIRTH 1420
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1478
Place of death Babble