Rupert II, Count Palatine of the Rhine () (12 May 1325,

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– 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the

Elector Palatine This article lists counts palatine of Lotharingia, counts palatine of the Rhine, and electors of the Palatinate (), the titles of three counts palatine who ruled some part of the Rhine region in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire b ...

of the Rhine from the house of

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in 1390–1398.

Life

Rupert was the elder son of Adolf, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Countess

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. On 13 February 1338 the Palatinate was divided between Rupert II and his uncle Rudolf II, Duke of Bavaria. After the death of his other uncle, the Elector Rupert I (who had succeeded Rudolf II), on 16 February 1390 he was proclaimed Elector Palatine with the consent of

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. In 1391 he banished

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s from the Palatinate, confiscated their property, and bequeathed it to the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. In 1395 he promulgated the so-called ''Rupertinische Konstitution'' which was intended to provide for unity of the Palatinate. Among other provisions, he incorporated to his realm the former Imperial Free City Neckargemünd. He was buried in Schönau Abbey a

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Family and children

Rupert was married in 1345 to Beatrice, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. They had: # Anna (1346 – 30 November 1415), married in 1363 to William VII of Jülich, 1st Duke of Berg. # Friedrich (1347 – c. 1395). # Johann (1349 – c. 1395). # Mechthild (born 1350), married to Landgrave Sigost of Leuchtenberg. # Elisabeth (c. 1351 – 1360). # King

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(1352 – 1410), married Elisabeth of Nuremberg # Adolf (1355 – 1 May 1358).

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