He studied at Heidelberg from 1404; in 1409 he became dean of the Faculty of Arts there, then bachelor of theology (1410) and rector of the university (1413). In 1416 he entered the Carthusian monastery of St. Alban in Trier, and in 1419 became its prior.
Appointed, with papal dispensation, Benedictine abbot of St. Matthias in Trier, he revived this and the three other Benedictine abbeys in the city. The Council of Basel named him (4 July 1434) general visitor of the provinces of Trier and Cologne, and from 1435 also of the dioceses of Mainz, Speyer, Worms, and Strasbourg. He reformed Clus and Bursfeld, the Benedictine nuns of Marienberg above Boppard; he visited Hornbach, Stein on the Rhine, St. Gall, and Reichenau. R. never departed from St. Matthias.
He left the Constitutions for St. Matthias (both the abbey and the definitive drafting) and for Marienberg; De bono regimine abbatis (ed. by B. Pez, Bibliotheca ascetica, I, Ratisbon 1723, pp. 157–204); and manuscripts survive: Exercicium noviciorum, Exercicium breve de columnis septem, Exercicium bonum de Passione Domini, and Sermons delivered at the Council of Basel and during his visits to monasteries.