Rupert, King of Germany
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Contemporary painting in the collegiate church of Neustadt an der Weinstraße
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King of Germany (formally King of the Romans) |
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| Reign | 21 August 1400 – 18 May 1410 |
| Coronation | 6 January 1401 |
| Predecessor | Wenceslaus |
| Successor | Jobst of Moravia |
| Elector Palatine | |
| Reign | 6 January 1398 – 18 May 1410 |
| Predecessor | Rupert II |
| Successor | Louis III |
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5 May 1352 Amberg, Upper Palatinate |
| Died | 18 May 1410 (aged 58) Landskron Castle, Oppenheim, Electoral Palatinate |
| Burial | Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg |
| Spouse | Elisabeth of Hohenzollern |
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Margaret of the Palatinate Louis III, Elector Palatine John, Count Palatine of Neumarkt Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken Otto I, Count Palatine of Mosbach |
| House | Wittelsbach |
| Father | Rupert II, Elector Palatine |
| Mother | Beatrice of Aragon |
Rupert of the Palatinate (German: Ruprecht von der Pfalz; 5 May 1352 – 18 May 1410), a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany (rex Romanorum) from 1400 until his death.
Rupert was born at Amberg in the Upper Palatinate, the son of Elector Palatine Rupert II and Beatrice of Aragon, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. Rupert's great-granduncle was the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV. He was raised at the Dominican Liebenau monastery near Worms, where his widowed grandmother Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun.
From his early years Rupert took part in the government of the Electoral Palatinate to which he succeeded on his father's death in 1398. He and the three ecclesiastical prince-electors (of Mainz, Cologne and Trier) met at Lahneck Castle in Oberlahnstein on 20 August 1400 and declared the Luxembourg king Wenceslaus deposed. On the next day the same four electors met at Rhens to ballot for Rupert as next German king, thus the majority of the college including the Elector Palatine's own vote. As the Imperial City of Aachen refused to let him enter through its gates, Rupert was crowned by Archbishop Frederick III in Cologne on 6 January 1401.
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