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Rudolph II (c. 880 /885 – 12 or 13 July 937) [1] was King of Burgundy from 912 until his death in 937 and King of Italy from 922 to 926. He initially succeeded in Upper Burgundy . In 933, Rudolph acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy ( Provence ) from King Hugh of Italy in exchange for the waiver of his claims to the Italian crown, thereby ...
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His son, Rudolph II succeeded to this new-formed state, which included the French or western part of Switzerland, Franche-Comté, Savoy, Dauphiné, Provence, and the country between the Rhine and the Alps, and was known as the kingdom of Burgundy. He twice attempted the conquest of Italy, and for a period of three years governed that kingdom.
Archduke Rudolf, aged 15, painted by Alonso Sánchez Coello. Rudolf was born in Vienna on 18 July 1552. [2] He was the eldest son and successor of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia, and King of Hungary and Croatia; his mother was the Spanish Princess Maria, a daughter of Charles V [2] and Isabella of Portugal.
Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy (French, Raoul; also referred to as Ralph), Duke of Burgundy from 921 and King of West Francia from 923 to 936; Rudolph I, King of Burgundy, elected in 888 after the death of Charles the Fat. He died in 912; Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, son of Rudolph I, and ruled (Upper) Burgundy from 912 to 937; also king of ...
The Kingdom of Burgundy, known from the 12th century [1]: 140 as the Kingdom of Arles, [a] [2] was a realm established in 933 by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy under King Rudolf II.
Gules a fess argent (Babenberg, adopted by Rudolph I (d.1291), King of Germany, of the House of Habsburg, having obtained the former Babenberg Duchies of Austria and Styria, in lieu of his paternal arms (Or, a lion rampant gules crowned armed and langued azure). 1493–1519 : Maximilian I of Habsburg (1459 † 1519), crowned in 1508
Rudolph was succeeded as king of Burgundy by his son, Rudolph II. [1] Rudolph I's widow, queen Guilla, married Hugh of Arles in 912. This Rudolph is frequently confused with his nephew Rudolph of France, who was the second duke of Burgundy and ninth king of France.