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

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– 6 January 1398, Amberg). He was the

Elector Palatine The counts palatine of Lotharingia /counts palatine of the Rhine /electors of the Palatinate (german: Kurfürst von der Pfalz) ruled some part of Rhine area in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire from 915 to 1803. The title was a kind ...

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 Adolf of the Rhine (german: Adolf der Redliche von der Pfalz) (27 September 1300, Wolfratshausen – 29 January 1327, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Neustadt) from the house of Wittelsbach was formally Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1319 to 1327 ...

and Countess

Irmengard of Oettingen Irmengard of Oettingen ( – 6 November 1389 in Worms, Germany) was a princess of the Counts von Oettingen by birth, and by marriage, Countess Palatine of the Rhine and, as a widow, a Dominican nun. Life Countess Palatine Irmengard ...

. 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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and

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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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monastery in Heidelberg.

Family and children

Rupert was married in 1345 to

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, daughter of King Peter II of Sicily. They had: # Anna (1346 – 30 November 1415), married in 1363 to

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. # Friedrich (1347 – c. 1395). # Johann (1349 – c. 1395). # Mechthild (born 1350), married to Landgrave Sigost of Leuchtenberg. # Elisabeth (c. 1351 – 1360). # King Rupert of Germany (1352 – 1410), married Elisabeth of Nuremberg # Adolf (1355 – 1 May 1358).

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