[1][2][3] After the death of Rudolph I at Germersheim on 15 July 1291, his son Albert I was the most obvious successor to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire.

Further, once king, Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg was determined to forge his own power base and failed to commit to the concessions he had made to get elected.

[1][4] Before this, and following a request of the Elector Archbishop of Mainz, Albert had already begun to move to the Rhine and engage Adolf, who had his own strong army.

Albert's army included contingents from the Habsburg territories, Hungary, Switzerland and those of Henry II, Prince-Bishop of Constance.

His forces consisted of contingents from the Taunus, Adolf's home region, the Electoral Palatinate, Franconia, Lower Bavaria, Alsace and St.

[2] Albert initially avoided a collision, but then on July 2, 1298 deployed his troops in a strategically favorable position on the Hasenbühl, a hill near Göllheim.

[1][2] Adolf's widow, Imagina of Isenburg-Limburg, saw her husband's coffin transferred from Rosenthal Abbey to Speyer Cathedral by emperor Henry VII in 1309.