Count Rudolf.

This man was tall in body, having a length of seven feet, slender, having a small head, a pale face, and a long nose, and he had little hair . . .

Saint Fridolin’s relics in Seckingen often shook, as a sign that the little town would have misfortune. Namely, Henry, Bishop of Basel, burned it as belonging to his enemy, Count Rudolf. The Abbess ingen then brought the holy relics to Rudolf for safekeeping, to Laufenburg, and because they shook everywhere with displeasure in their old dwelling place, the monastery in Seckingen was returned back.

Rudolf used barges, which he could carry on wagons here and there, in order to cross the Rhine to Birs near Basel.

M. Albert of Strasbourg’s Chronicle.

Meanwhile, it happened that the Basel Parrots derisive term for a political faction expelled the Star-bearers: on account of which Count Rudolf, having gathered his friends, besieged Basel with the Star-bearers and their instigators near the chapel of Binningen.

Rudolf’s brother-in-law, Albert, Count of Hohenberg and Haigerloch, had a merry notary named Cappadocius. —

Kumier

It was sung by a certain master, who was called Kumier, that the same Albert was the support of the Roman Empire.