Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz

Ruprecht of the Palatinate- Veldenz (* 1506 in Zweibrücken, † July 28, 1544 at Castle Gräfenstein ) was Count of Veldenz and founder of Veldenzer line of the House of Pfalz- Zweibrücken.

Life

Ruprecht was the younger son of the Count Palatine and Duke Alexander von Pfalz -Zweibrücken (1462-1514) from his marriage to Margaret (1480-1522), daughter of Count VI force. von Hohenlohe in New stone. Alexander had the birthright for the Principality of Pfalz- Zweibrücken specified in his will, which thus Rupert's older brother Ludwig II of Palatinate -Zweibrücken devolved. Ruprecht was intended for the clergy. He was canon of Mainz, Cologne and Strasbourg. These Would let him have his brother in 1524 the income of the deanery of St. Remigius with the Michel Castle, 1526, the Office Lauter corners. In 1529 he announced his renunciation of all ecclesiastical dignities.

After his brother Ludwig 's death Ruprecht led from 1533 to 1543 the business of government for his minor nephew Wolfgang von Pfalz- Zweibrücken first together with Wolfgang's mother Elisabeth of Hesse and from 1540, when it again married, alone.

Like his brother Louis was inclined Ruprecht of the Reformation. Ruprecht took the ideas of the Reformation decisively than his brother. He commissioned Johann Schwebel with the creation of a new church order of Palatinate -Zweibrücken and ordered the use of the German language in worship to.

1540 acquired Ruprecht Pfalzgraf Johann II von Pfalz- simmering rule Greven stone (today's Gräfensteiner country), where he also introduced the Reformation.

The declared just for age Wolfgang von Pfalz- Zweibrücken left in the Marburg Agreement dated October 3, 1543 his uncle and former guardian Ruprecht and his descendants the offices Lauterecken and Veldenz, to the Office Remigiusberg near Kusel and Jette Bacher court as a separate rule. Thus, the Principality of Pfalz- Veldenz was founded, which was expanded in 1553 to the county Luetzelstein, half of the reign Guttenberg and two-thirds of Alsenz in Heidelberg succession contract and existed until 1694.

Rupert died in 1544 at his castle Gräfenstein and was buried in the Church Alexander in Zweibrücken.

Marriage and issue

Ruprecht married on June 28, 1537 Ursula ( 1515-1601 ), daughter of the wild and Rhine Count Johann VII of Salm- Kyrburg, with whom he had the following children:

  • Anna (1540-1586)
  • Georg Johann I (1543-1592), Count of Veldenz
  • Ursula (1543-1578)
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