Rudolph, Count of Ponthieu (died 866) Rudolph I of Burgundy (c. 859–912) Rudolph II of Burgundy (880–937) Rudolph of France (c. 890–936), reigned 923–936 Rudolph III of Burgundy (c. 970–1032) Rudolf of Rheinfelden (1025–1080), Duke of Swabia Rudolph II, Count of Habsburg (died 1232) Rudolf I of Germany (1218–1291) Rudolf II, Duke of Austria (1270–1290) Rudolph I of Bohemia ...
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Rudolf was a German anti-king, opponent of Henry IV. Rudolf was granted the duchy of Swabia in 1057 by the dowager empress Agnes of Poitou, regent for her infant son Henry IV. She also appointed him administrator of the kingdom of Burgundy and gave him her daughter Matilda in marriage (1059).
Rudolf II was an introverted man who tended to isolate himself, and scholars view his reign as both disastrous and intellectual. Many called Rudolf an ineffectual ruler; instead, he had a love for academics. His dedication to the arts and sciences helped plant the seeds for the Scientific Revolution. In 1583, he moved the imperial court from Vienna to Prague, making it “one of the leading ...
Born on 21 August 1858 in Laxenburg Palace south of Vienna, Rudolf was the third child and longed-for son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf was drilled by his father in the soldierly virtues of discipline, obedience and endurance, an approach that was at odds with the child’s delicate constitution and sensitive disposition. The very next day after
Rudolf I, known as Rudolf of Habsburg, was elected King of the Romans in 1273 after a period of instability in the Holy Roman Empire following the decline of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Before his election, Rudolf was a relatively minor noble from northern Switzerland, managing lands that spanned modern southern Germany, eastern France, and northwestern Switzerland. His election was influenced ...