Rudolf Hesso of Baden-Baden (c. 1290 – 17 August 1335) was a son of
Hesso, Margrave of Baden-Baden and his wife, Adelaide of Rieneck. He succeeded his father as
Margrave of Baden-Baden
The Margraviate of Baden-Baden was an early modern southwest German territory within the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in 1535 along with the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach as a result of the division of the Margraviate of Baden. Its territory ...
in 1297, and ruled jointly with his uncle,
Rudolf III. From 1332 to 1335, he ruled alone.
He married
Joanna of Burgundy
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from . Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice, Jean, and Jeanne.
The earliest recorded occurrence of the ...
, Lady of
Héricourt, a daughter of
Reginald of Burgundy
Reginald of Burgundy (in French, ''Renaud'', died 1321) was Count of Montbéliard, ''jure uxoris'', from 1282 to 1321. He was a son of Hugh of Chalon (from the House of Ivrée), sire of Salins, and his wife Adelaide.
After Reginald's death i ...
and widow of Count Ulrich II of Pfirt.
Rudolf Hesso and Joanna had two daughters:
* Margareta (d. 1367), married
Frederick III, Margrave of Baden-Baden (d. 1353)
* Adelheid (d. after 1399), married in 1345
Rudolf V, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim (d. 1361) and secondly Walram IV, Count of
Tierstein (d. 1386).
Rudolph Hesso died in 1335. As he had no male heirs,
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the ...
was inherited after his death by his cousin,
Rudolf IV, Margrave of Baden-Pforzheim.
House of Zähringen
Margraves of Baden
Year of birth unknown
1335 deaths
14th-century German nobility
1290s births
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