Margrave Rudolf I of Hachberg-Sausenberg (d. 1313) was the son of Margrave
Henry II
Henry II may refer to:
Kings
* Saint Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (972–1024), crowned King of Germany in 1002, of Italy in 1004 and Emperor in 1014
*Henry II of England (1133–89), reigned from 1154
*Henry II of Jerusalem and Cyprus (1271–1 ...
of Hachberg and Anne of
Ãœsenberg. He married in 1298 or 1299 to Agnes, the heiress of Otto of
Rötteln. In 1306 he founded the side-line
Hachberg-Sausenberg at
Sausenburg Castle, a castle which the Margraves of Hachberg had built in 1240 on top of Mount Sausenberg. His elder brother
Henry III continued the main Baden-Hachberg line at
Hochburg castle in
Emmendingen.
In 1311 Lord
Lüthold II of
Rötteln made Rudolf his co-ruler at
Rötteln Castle. This established the foundation for the rise of the Hachberg-Sausenberg line. Rudolf himself died before Lüthold. In 1315, Lüthold donated the Lordship of Rötteln to Rudolf's son
Henry, who came of age in that year.
[Fritz Schülin: ''Rötteln-Haagen, Beiträge zur Orts-, Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte'', Lörrach, 1965, p. 65]
He had three children:
Henry,
Rudolf II
Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the H ...
and
Otto I
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great ( ) or Otto of Saxony ( ), was East Francia, East Frankish (Kingdom of Germany, German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son o ...
.
See also
*
Margraviate of Baden
The Margraviate of Baden () was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the right banks of the Upper Rhine in south-western Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, when it was split into the tw ...
*
List of rulers of Baden
Baden was an Imperial Estate of the Holy Roman Empire and later one of the German states along the France–Germany border, frontier with France, primarily consisting of territory along the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Alsace and the Palati ...
References
* Fritz Schülin: ''Rötteln-Haagen, Beiträge zur Orts-, Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte'', Lörrach, 1965, p. 65.
* Karl Seith: ''Die Burg Rötteln im Wandel ihrer Herrengeschlechter, Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Baugeschichte der Burg'', self-published by the Röttelbund e.V., Haagen, cited by Schülin as: "in: ''Markgräferland'', vol. 3, issue 1, 1931", p. 6
Footnotes
Margraves of Baden-Hachberg
13th-century births
1313 deaths
13th-century German nobility
14th-century German nobility
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