Georg Rüxner: Anfang, Ursprung und Herkomen des Thurniers inn Teutscher Nation.

Historical literature did not only convey knowledge about events and persons of the past, for the nobility it also served as a way of self-reassuring their origin and their privileges.
The tournament book by the imperial herald Georg Rüxner, which was first printed in 1530, contains descriptions of 36 tournaments that had taken place since the 10th. century.
Even though the book is in some instances fiction, it fulfills the purpose of legitimating the nobility's eligibility for tournaments.
For Rüxner's contemporaries and for posterity, it serves as a genealogical manual demonstrating the nobility's ability for tournaments.
The tournament book is dedicated to Johann II. of Palatine-Simmern (1492-1557), who had a printing plant established at Simmern Castle. His son Friedrich became the elector of Platine in 1559.
The lines Palatine-Zweibrücken and Palatine-Simmern were linked by common ancestors.