Margrave Rudolf II of Hachberg-Sausenberg ''(medieval: Rudolf II of Hachberg-Susenberg)'' (1301–1352) was the son of Margrave
Rudolf I of Hachberg-Sausenberg and his wife Agnes, the heiress of Otto of Rötteln. After their elder brother
Henry
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died in 1318, Rudolf II and his younger brother
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 ...
took up government in
Rötteln and
Sausenberg. They moved their seat of government from
Sausenburg Castle to
Rötteln Castle. In the fall of 1332, troops from the City of
Basel
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besieged Rötteln Castle, because one of the brothers had stabbed the mayor of Basel. The conflict was settled after mediation by the nobility of the city and the margraviate.
Marriage and issue
Rudolf II was married to Catherine, the daughter of Ulrich
[''Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins'', vol. 16., p. 98] of Thierstein. Two children are documented:
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Rudolf III (1343–1428), his successor
* Agnes (d. around 1405), married Baron Burkhard II of Buchegg (d. after 10 June 1365)
See also
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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 ...
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Baden
Baden (; ) is a historical territory in southern Germany. In earlier times it was considered to be on both sides of the Upper Rhine, but since the Napoleonic Wars, it has been considered only East of the Rhine.
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The margraves of Ba ...
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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'', Röttelbund e.V., Haagen, undated, p. 6, according to Schülin in: ''Das Markgräflerland'', vol. 3, issue 1, 1931
* Gerhard Möhring: ''Chronologie zu Markgraf Rudolf III. von Hachberg, Herr zu Sausenberg und Rötteln (1343-1428)'', in: ''Das Markgräflerland'', vol. 1, p. 53-63, Schopfheim, 2001
* Johann Christian Sachs: ''Einleitung in die Geschichte der Marggravschaft und des marggrävlichen altfürstlichen Hauses Baden'', Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1764, part 1, p. 488-494,
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Margraves of Baden-Hachberg
1301 births
1352 deaths
14th-century German nobility
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