Rudolf VON BREGENZ-PFULLENDORF

• Preferred Name: Rudolf VON BREGENZ-PFULLENDORF
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Count of Bregenz with note: Data Standardization.
  
• Death: 27 APR 1160 in Pavia, Lombardia, Italy at LATI: N5.198 LONG: E0.158
  
• Birth: 1094 in Bregenz, Vorarberg, Austria at LATI: N7.5033 LONG: E0.7456
  
• FSID: GXF7-H49
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Rudolf von Pfullendorf (* 1100/1110, † January 9, 1181 in Jerusalem) was Count of Ramsberg, later Count of Pfullendorf, was also called Count von Bregenz and Count of Lindau and was Vogt of Sankt Gallen.
  
  Rudolf was the son of Count Ulrich von Ramsberg and Adelheid von Bregenz, daughter of Count Ulrich X of Bregenz. The Pfullendorf counts were a branch line of the Udalrichinger.
  
  Around 1150, Rudolf married a sister of Duke Welf VII. and daughter of Duke Welf VI. named Elisabeth (* around 1130/35, † 1164/80). She was a cousin of Duke Henry the Lion and Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.
  
  The first mentioned in the founding of the monastery Salem Count Rudolf was from 1152 to the party of the later Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa. Thus, he was able to expand the power base of his family in Linzgau to the dominions of Bregenz and Lindau, the castle Rheineck in the valley of the Alpine Rhine, the bailiwick of the diocese of Chur and the abbey of St. Gallen.
  
  He relocated his seat from Burg Ramsberg to Pfullendorf in 1155, built a castle in the area of ​​the present-day old town and from then on called himself Count Rudolf von Pfullenberg. Around the castle on the Pfullendorfer Molassefelsen developed a market settlement of farmers and artisans.
  
  His only son Berthold (* 1150) died in 1167 in the Fourth Italian campaign by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, as the malaria of his knights army decimated. He thus shared the fate of his father-in-law Welf VI, who also lost his only son, Welf VII. This later killed both sexes in a male line.
  
  His daughter Ita (* 1151/52, † before 1191) is mentioned in a around 1160 in the Habsburg house monastery in Muri genealogy as filia sororis ducis Welph (daughter of the sister of Duke Welf). In 1164 she married the Count of Habsburg Albrecht III. and thus was the great-grandmother of Rudolf I of Habsburg, the first Roman-German king of the Habsburg family.
  
  As Rudolf's father-in-law Welf VI. sold his property to Frederick I Barbarossa in 1178 as part of a contract of inheritance, Rudolf also transferred a large part of his heritage to the Hohenstaufen.
  
  1180 Count Rudolf moved as a pilgrim to the Holy Land, where he died according to St. Gallen obituary on January 9, 1181. [3]

1. Elisabeth von Bregenz, b. um 1120    
2. Ita von Pfullendorf-Bregenz, b. 1141 in Pfullendorf, Konstanz, Baden, Germany     d. nach 1176

1. Rudolf Von Pfullendorf II von Bregenz, b. ABT 1121 in Pfullendorf, Bezirksamt Pfullendorf, Amt Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire     d. 27 APR 1160 in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
2. Berchta von Bregenz-Pfullendorf, b. 1120