Rupert of Bingen was an 8th-century German saint born in Bingen am Rhein. The son of a Christian noblewoman named Bertha and a pagan father, he was raised in the Christian faith following his father's death. At age fifteen, he traveled to Rome on a pilgrimage with his mother. Upon returning, he utilized his inheritance to establish churches and hospices for the impoverished, residing with his mother on a hill near the Nahe river known as Rupertsberg.