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Rupert of Germany

Rupert
Rupprecht III. von der Pfalz.jpg
Contemporary painting in the collegiate church of Neustadt an der Weinstraße
King of Germany
(formally King of the Romans)
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
Born (1352-05-05)5 May 1352
Amberg, Upper Palatinate
Died 18 May 1410(1410-05-18) (aged 58)
Landskron Castle,
Oppenheim, Electoral Palatinate
Burial Church of the Holy Spirit, Heidelberg
Spouse Elisabeth of Hohenzollern
Issue 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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