Rupert III, Count of Nassau

Rupert III "the Bellicose" of Nassau, German: Ruprecht III. "der Streitbare" von Nassau († 23/28 December 1191),[1][2] was one of the earliest counts of Nassau. He took part in the Third Crusade.

Biography

The coat-of-arms of the counts of Nassau

Rupert was probably a son of Arnold II, Count of Laurenburg and a woman of unknown name.[1][2][3]

Rupert is mentioned as count of Nassau between 1160–1190.[1][2] He ruled together with his cousin Henry I and later with his cousin Walram I.[1][2] In 1172 Rupert became Vogt of Schönau Abbey. Since 1182 he was Vogt of Koblenz. He is called Ruoberdus comes in the inscription of a coin, dated around 1175.

Rupert was a loyal supporter of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and escorted him in the Battle of Monte Porzio in 1167 and the Battle of Legnano the 1176. He also participated in the Empire’s wars against Henry the Lion in 1180-1181.

With his cousin Walram I, Rupert joined the Third Crusade (1189–1190), acting as the imperial standard-bearer in Frederick’s army. Walram and Rupert were part of Frederick I’s delegation set ahead to Constantinople to prepare for the arrival of the German troops. While Frederick had earlier received promises of cooperation from Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos, the delegation was initially snubbed and then actually held as hostages by the Byzantine Emperor.[4] Rupert probably died during this Crusade.[1][2]

Marriage and children

Rupert married in or before 1169[1] to Elizabeth of Leiningen († 20 June 1235/38),[3] daughter of Emicho III, Count of Leiningen.[2] As widow she used the title countess of Schowenburg.[1]
From this union came two children:[1][2][3]

  1. Herman († 16 July before 1206), count of Nassau 1190–1192.
  2. Lucardis († before 1222), she first married around 1200 to Gebhard IV of Querfurt, viscount of Magdeburg († Querfurt 1213)[5] and remarried in 1214 to Herman V, Count of Virneburg († after 1254).

Sources

  • This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article, as of 2009-01-25, and the corresponding Dutch Wikipedia article, as of 2018-08-26.
  • Alfred Lück, Siegerland und Nederland, Siegeländer Heimatverein e.V., Siegen, 1981.
  • Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln. Stammtafeln zur Geschichte europäischen Staaten. Neue Folge. Band I, Marburg, 1978.
  • A.A. Vorsterman van Oyen, Het vorstenhuis Oranje-Nassau. Van de vroegste tijden tot heden, A.W. Sijthoff en J.L. Beijers, Leiden en Utrecht, 1882.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 H.F.J. Hesselfelt, De oudste generaties van het huis Nassau in: De Nederlandsche Leeuw, Maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde 1965, nr. 11.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 dr. A.W.E. Dek, Genealogie van het Vorstenhuis Nassau, Europese Bibliotheek, Zaltbommel, 1970.
  3. 1 2 3 Medieval Lands - Nassau.
  4. ↑ A History of the Crusades: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311. By Kenneth M. Setton, Harry W. Hazard, Robert Lee Wolff, Norman P. Zacour, Marshall Whithed Baldwin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. Revised 2005.
  5. ↑ Medieval Lands - Nassau mentions that there is doubt about the first marriage of Lucardis to Gebhard of Querfurt.
German nobility
Preceded by
Arnold II
Rupert II		 co-Count of Nassau
(with Henry I and
Walram I)
1160–1190		 Succeeded by
Herman
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