Rupert II, Elector Palatine

Rupert II, called the Hard (1325–1398), was Elector Palatine of the Rhine. Born at Amberg, the elder son of Count Palatine Adolf and Irmengard of Oettingen, he was named heir to his childless uncles Rudolf II and Rupert I by the Treaty of Pavia in 1329 and succeeded Rupert I in 1390.

In 1391 he expelled the Jews from the Palatinate and seized their property, and in 1395 he issued the Rupertine Constitution keeping the Palatinate undivided. Married in 1345 to Beatrice of Sicily, he died at Amberg in 1398.