Editing Adolf, King of the Romans (section)

==Election of Albert and death of Adolf==
[[Image:Tod Adolf von Nassau.jpg|thumb|upright 1.2|Depiction of Adolf’s death at the Battle of Göllheim, by Master Simon, Koblenz, 1829]]

Following Adolf’s deposition came the election of [[Albert I of Habsburg]] as the new king. How this election took place is not very clear today, as the chroniclers have little to report. The question is open, for example, whether Albert actually initially did not want to accept the choice, as he would later assert against [[Pope Boniface VIII]].

To depose Adolf was one thing; it was another to enforce the decision against him. Adolf refused to accept this decision, but the conflict between him and the princely opposition was soon decided on the battlefield. On 2 July 1298 the armies of Adolf and Albert met at the [[Battle of Göllheim]].{{sfn|Herde|2000|p=519}} The small village of [[Göllheim]] is situated in northern [[Rhineland-Palatinate]] between [[Kaiserslautern]] and [[Worms, Germany|Worms]] in present-day [[Donnersbergkreis]]. After violent attacks, Adolf fell together with his standard-bearers and a few faithful.<ref>The medieval sources on the death are discussed by Manuel Kamenzin, Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150–1349) (Mittelalter-Forschungen 64), Ostfildern 2020, pp. 332–351. ([https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/mf64/0333/image,info online])</ref> Adolf’s army turned to flee and quickly dispersed.

Albert did not allow the followers of Adolf to bury the body of the fallen king in the ''Kaiserdom'', the [[Speyer Cathedral|Imperial Cathedral of Speyer]]. Therefore, Adolf was initially buried in the [[Cistercians|Cistercian]] monastery of {{Interlanguage link|Rosenthal Abbey|de|3=Kloster Rosenthal (Pfalz)}} in present-day [[Kerzenheim]] and was only later transferred to Speyer.<ref>On the funeral in Rosenthal see Manuel Kamenzin, Die Tode der römisch-deutschen Könige und Kaiser (1150–1349) (Mittelalter-Forschungen 64), Ostfildern 2020, pp. 430–432 ([https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/mf64/0431/image,info online]). On the transfer to Speyer: pp. 453-457.</ref>