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Rupert of Bingen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Saint Rupert of Bingen was a German Catholic saint. The son of Bertha of Bingen, a Christian noblewoman, his father was a pagan called Robolaus (Robold). After his death, their child was raised as a Christian by his mother.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rupert of Bingen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.