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ROTHELIN, JACQUELINE DE ROHAN, MARQUISE DE (c. 1520-1587)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 757 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROTHELIN, JACQUELINE DE ROHAN, MARQUISE DE (c. 1520-1587) , daughter of Charles de Rohan and Jeanne de Saint-Severin. Her husband, Francois of Orleans-Longueville, marquis de Rothelin, died in 1548, and in watching her son's interests in Neuchatel she was brought into contact with the reformers in Switzerland. She then embraced Protestantism and turned her chateau at Blandy, in Brie, into a
refuge
  for Huguenots. In 1567 she underwent a term of imprisonment at the Louvre for harbouring Protestants.
ROTHENBURG-OBDER-TAUBER, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, 49 M. by rail S.W. of Nuremberg. Pop. (1905) 8436. It is beautifully situated on an eminence 200 ft. above the Tauber. It is flanked by medieval walls, towers and gates, and its antique
appearance
  has been care-fully preserved. Perhaps the most interesting building is the town
hall
 , one part of which
dates
  from 1240 and the other from 1572. The latter is a beautiful Renaissance structure, with a magnificent facade and a delicate spire, and contains a grand
hall
 , the Kaisersaal, in which every Whit Monday a play, Der Meisterlrunk, which commemorates the capture of the town by Tilly in 1631, is performed. Other buildings are the
Gothic
  church of St James, with curiously carved altars and beautiful stained-glass windows, and containing in the Toppler chapel the tomb of the burgomaster, Heinrich Toppler; the 15th-century church of St Wolfgang; the Franciscan church; and five other churches. The town has many picturesque houses, and possesses a library with some interesting archives. It has manufactures of toys and agricultural machinery, electrical works and breweries.
Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, mentioned in the chronicles in 804 as Rotinbure, was probably a residence of the dukes of Franconia. It first appears as a town in 942 and until 11o8 was the seat of the
counts
  of Rothenburg-Komburg; when this line became
extinct
  it passed to the family of Hohenstaufen, one member of which took the title of duke of Rothenburg. In 1172 it became a free imperial city and it attained the zenith of its prosperity under the famous burgomaster Heinrich Toppler (1350-,408). It took part in the movements in
South
  Germany during the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1631 Rothenburg was stormed by Tilly, and the cup of wine presented by the burgomaster, which, according to tradition, saved the town from destruction, is annually commemorated in the play mentioned above.
See Bensen, Beschreibung and Geschichte der Stadt Rothenburg (Erlangen, 1856); Merz. Rothenburg in alter and newer Zeit (2nd ed., Ansbach, 1881); Schultheiss, Rothenburg, ein Stddtebild (Zurich, 1892) ; and Das Festspiel zu Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber (Munich, 1892) ; and W. Klein, Fiihrer durch die Stadt Rothenburg (Rothenburg, 1888).


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