Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern (1461–1507)

Keystone from the former cathedral cloister of Worms (today in the Worms City Museum ), donated in 1494 by Bishop Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern, with his coat of arms

Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern , also Rupert (* October 16, 1461 , † April 19, 1507 ) was as Ruprecht II. From 1492 to 1507 the 45th Bishop of Regensburg .

Ruprecht II was a son of Count Palatine Friedrich I of Pfalz-Simmern and Margarethe von Geldern. On January 8, 1478, he was enrolled with his brothers Stephan and Friedrich at the law faculty of the old University of Cologne ( Universitas Studii Coloniensis ).

He suffered from a serious illness known as the French disease . This term included not only syphilis , but also yaws . The illness, from the consequences of which he finally died, hindered him considerably in the exercise of his office. The diocese was badly devastated in the Landshut War of Succession and with the establishment of the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg a changed secular order resulted. Since the lower clergy in the Abensberg area lacked energy in the pursuit of witches and wizards, the inquisitor Heinrich Kramer was called in to appoint a delegate.

literature

• Michael Buchberger (Ed.): 1200 years of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1939, p. 44f.
• Josef Staber: Church history of the diocese of Regensburg . Regensburg 1966, p. 94f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich IV of Absberg	Bishop of Regensburg 1492–1507	Johann III. from the Palatinate