Rupert I, Count of Laurenburg

This did not, however, settle the dispute with the Bishop of Worms over the legality of constructing Nassau Castle.

[citation needed] Rupert had little luck in this dispute between his house and the Bishop of Worms over the sovereignty over Nassau Castle.

Under Rupert's rule, from 1126 to 1145, the Romanesque buildings were constructed, presumably including a three-nave basilica.

[citation needed] Archbishop Adalbert I of Mainz confirmed the foundation of Schönau Abbey by ʻcognatus noster comes Ruobertus de Lurenburchʼ by charter dated 1132, before 13 September.

[1] Rupert is regularly mentioned on court days and the Imperial Diet of King Conrad III of Germany, for example during Christmas 1146 in Speyer, where Bernard of Clairvaux preached the crusade.

Rupert married before 1135, possibly c. 1125,[2] to Beatrix of Limburg († 12 July after 1164, still mentioned in 1165[2]), daughter of Walram II ‘the Pagan’, Count of Limburg and Duke of Lower Lorraine, and Jutta of Guelders (daughter of Count Gerard I of Guelders).