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  Conrad II - LoveToKnow 1911
died in 1024, the two Conrads were the most prominent candidates for the throne, and are said to have mutually agreed to abide by the decision of the electors.
Conrad then travelled through his dominions, received tribute from tribes dwelling east of Saxony, and by his journey "bound the kingdom most firmly in the bond of peace, and the kingly protection." His position, however, was full of difficulty, and the various elements of discontent tended to unite.
Collecting an army, Conrad marched into Burgundy in 1033, was chosen and crowned king of Peterlingen, and after driving his rival from the land was again crowned at Geneva in 1034.
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 CalendarHome.com - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry, count of Speyer, the father of Conrad II was a grandson of Luitgard, a daughter of Emperor Otto I who had married the Salian Duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine.
The grave of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor at the crypt of the cathedral of Speyer, Germany
A biography of Conrad II in chronicle form, Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris, was written by his chaplain Wipo of Burgundy, and presented to Henry III in 1046, not long after the latter was crowned.
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  Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conrad grew up poor by the standards of the nobility and was raised by the bishop of Worms.
Conrad campaigned against Poland in 1028 and forced Mieszko II, son and heir of Boleslaus I, to make peace and return land that Boleslaw I had conquered from the empire during his father's reign.
At the death of Henry II the bold and rebellious Duke of Poland Mieszko II had tried to throw off vassalage, but then submitted and swore to be emperor Conrad's faithful vassal.
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 Conrad II, Duke of Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conrad II (German: Konrad II von Hohenstaufen) (February/March1173 – August 15, 1196) was duke of Swabia from 1191 to his death and Duke of Rothenburg (1188-1191).
Conrad was murdered in Durlach in 1196, allegedly by the husband of a woman he had raped.
Another story says that Conrad was bitten in the eye by a virgin he was attempting to rape, and that he died of the resulting infection.
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 Courtly Lives - HRE Frederick II
Henry II (1114-1177), Jasomirgott Margrave in 1141; and Duke of Austria in 1156.
Conrad IV was born on April 25, 1228, in Andria, Italy to Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II and queen regent of Jerusalem, Yolanda.
Conrad married Elizabeth of Bavaria, daughter of Otto II Wittelsback, Duke of Bavaria in 1246.
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 Conrad IV of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad IV, Conrad of Hohenstaufen (April 25, 1228 Andria, Italy – May 21, 1254, Lavello), was king of Jerusalem (as Conrad II) 1228–1254, of Germany 1237–1254, and of Sicily (as Conrad I) 1250–1254.
Conrad invaded Italy in 1251, but not with enough success to subdue the pope's supporters, and the pope in turn offered Sicily to Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (1253).
Conrad was excommunicated in 1254, but died of a fever in the same year, and it was left to his infant son Conradin, born in 1252 and beheaded at age 16 in 1268, to continue the struggle with the Papacy.
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 CONRAD II - Online Information article about CONRAD II
France; and some German princes, including Conrad the younger, and the king's step-son Ernest II., duke of Swabia, showed signs of revolt.
Conrad did much for the strengthening of the German kingdom.
and der Heimfall der burgundischen Krone an Kaiser Konrad II.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad grew up poor by the standards the nobility and was raised by the of Worms and was reputed to be prudent firm out of consciousness of deprivation.
Conrad campaigned against Poland in 1028 and forced Mieszko II son and heir of Boleslaus I to make peace and return land Boleslaw I had conquered from the empire his father's reign.
At the death of II the bold and rebellious Duke of Mieszko II had tried to throw off vassalage then submitted and swore to be emperor faithful vassal.
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 CONRAD II. - LoveToKnow Article on CONRAD II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad then travelled through his dominions, received tribute from tribes dwelling east of Saxony, and by his journey bound the kingdom most firmly in the bond of peace, and the kingly protection.
Collecting an army, Conrad marched into Burgundy in 1033, was chosen and crowned king of Peterlingen, and after driving his rival from the land was again crowned at Geneva in 1034.
Unable to take Milan, Conrad issued in May 1037 an edictum de beneficiis, by which he decreed that the principle of heredity should apply in Italy to lands held by sub- vassals, and that this class of tenants should not be deprived of their lands except by the sentence of their peers, and should retain.
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 34th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Dedi von Ostmark II, Margrave of Ostmark was born circa 1015 in Meissen, Saxony, Germany.
Conrad von Bavaria II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and King of Germany "The Salic" was born circa 990 and married 1016.
BIOGRAPHY: Conrad II was a German king (from 1024 to 1039), Holy Roman emperor (from 1027 to 1039),and founder of the Salian dynasty.
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 Conrad
Conrad was spacecraft commander of Apollo 12, November 14- 24, 1969.
Conrad had said, "The LM is too sporty when in a light weight configuration." Minimum impulse was expected to produce about 0.3 degree per second rate, which was estimated to be about four times too fast.
Conrad, shorter than Neil Armstrong (first man on the moon, July 20), had a little difficulty negotiating the last step from the LM ladder to the lunar surface.
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 Konrad II (c. 990-1039)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad was the son of Count Henry of Speyer, who had been passed over in his inheritances in favour of a younger brother.
Conrad was thus able to proceed in 1038 to southern Italy, where he installed friendly princes in Salerno and Anversa and appointed the German Richer as abbot of Monte Cassino.
Conrad himself reached Germany safely and held several important courts in Solothurn (where his son Henry was invested with the kingdom of Burgundy), in Strassburg, and in Goslar.
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 Conrad II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
With the end of the Saxon line on the death of Henry II, the succession passed to the matrilineal descendants of Otto I, and Conrad, a Franconian noble, was elected (1024) as German king.
In 1036, Conrad returned to Italy, where war was raging between the greater and the lesser nobles.
Conrad’s administration was economical, and he encouraged commerce by granting market and mint privileges.
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 Holy Roman Empire - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The term Roman Empire was used in 1034 to denote the lands under Conrad II, and Holy Empire in 1157.
Conrad II, first of the Salian Dynasty, was then elected king in 1024 only after some debate.
Conrad III came to the throne in 1138, being the first of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, which was about to restore the glory of the Empire even under the new conditions of the 1122 Concordat of Worms.
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 Encyclopedia: Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
He was the oldest son of Count Otto von Worms and married Adelheid of Alsace or Adelheid von Metz, the sister of the counts...
The Salian Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire was founded by Conrad II (c.
Henry II of Germany (972 - 13 July 1024), was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad II (circa 990 - June 4, 1039) was the son of count Henry of Speyer.
Conrad grew up poor by the standards of the nobility and was raised by the bishop of Worms and was reputed to be prudent and firm out of consciousness of deprivation.
Strict canonists took exception to the marriage and emperor Henry II used these findings to force Conrad into temporary exile.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Italian bishops paid homage at Conrad's court at Constance in June 1025, but lay princes sought to elect William III (V), Duke of Aquitaine, as king instead.However early in 1026 Conrad went to Milan, where archbishop Ariberto crowned him king of Italy.
Conrad campaigned against Poland in 1028 andforced Mieszko II, son and heir of Boleslaus I, to make peace and return land that Boleslaw I hadconquered from the empire during his father's reign.
At the death of Henry II the bold and rebellious Duke of Poland Mieszko II had tried to throw off vassalage, but then submitted and swore to be emperorConrad's faithful vassal.
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 Conrad II - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Conrad II c.990-1039, Holy Roman emperor (1027-39) and German king (1024-39), first of the Salian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire.
After the collapse of the revolts of Ernest and the Lotharingians, Conrad brought N Italy into submission (1026-27) and was crowned emperor at Rome.
Conrad Weiser 53 Daniel Boone 44 Berks II Championship: Leonard steps up, sparks Weiser.
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 Conrad II, Duke of Swabia information - Search.com
Conrad II, German: Konrad II von Hohenstaufen (February/March 1173 – August 15 1196) was duke of Swabia from 1191 to his death and Duke of Rothenburg (1188-1191).
Conrad was murdered in Durlach in 1196, allegedly by the husband of a woman he had raped.
Another story says that Conrad was bitten in the eye by a virgin he was attempting to rape, and that he died of the resulting infection.
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 Definition of Conrad III
Conrad III (1093-1152), the first German king of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was the son of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia.
After Lothar's death (December 1137), Conrad was elected king of the Romans (the title customarily accorded preparatory to accession as emperor) and thereby ruler of Germany at Coblenz in March 1138.
Conrad was never crowned emperor, and continued to style himself king of the Romans until his death.
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 The Baldwin Project: The History of Germany by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
CONRAD II II died and left no heir to the throne; and so the lords and freemen of the Empire gathered together to choose a new ruler.
Provoked at the interruption, one of the bishops urged Conrad to hurry on to the Cathedral.
Conrad forgave Ernst and his companions, but it was not long before they rebelled a second time, and many others who feared the Emperor too much to rebel openly, joined them in secret.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor : Conrad II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Herwig Wolfram: Conrad II, 990 - 1039
In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990–1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium.
Conrad was the founder of the Salian Dynasty, under whose almost century-long dominion Germany became the most powerful state in Western Europe.
Conrad’s reign marked the triumph of the concept of “kingdom” and the zenith of what has been termed “imperial grandeur.” He broadened the internal bases of imperial power and brought the full weight of his office to bear upon popes, clerics, and abbots in the pursuit of his ecclesiastical policies.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(Piecemeal over the next centuries most of the former Kingdom of Arles was incorporated into Capetian France.) Conrad upheld the rights of the valvassores (knights and burghers of the cities) of Italy against Archbishop Aribert of Milan and the local nobles.
Depictions of Conrad II: - Basilica of Aquileia (Italy).
Henry II, Holy Roman emperor and German king Biographical article in the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
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 Radio Hall of Fame - William Conrad, Adventure / Drama
One of radio’s consummate actors, William Conrad was born in September of 1920 in Louisville, Kentucky.
A fighter pilot during World War II, Conrad returned to show business after the war and utilized his rich baritone voice in radio and motion pictures.
Conrad’s longest-running role was that of U.S. marshal Matt Dillon on the groundbreaking radio western Gunsmoke, which aired on CBS radio from 1952 to 1961.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry, count of Speyer, the father of Conrad II was a grandson of Luitgard, a daughter of Emperor Otto I who had maried the Salian Duke Conrad the Red of Lorraine.
Strict canonists took exception to the marriage, and Emperor Henry II used these facts to force Conrad into temporary exile.
The Italian bishops paid homage at Conrad's court at Constance in June 1025, but lay princes sought to elect William III (V), Duke of Aquitaine, as king instead.
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 CONRAD YODER FAMILY
Yoder got most of his information about Conrad Yoder(1) from his grandparents and other old people who knew Conrad Yoder(1) and the members of his family.
As his own mother had died when he was six years old and as his father, Michael Yoder(3) never remarried, Col Yoder and his younger brother Cyrus, as small boys often spent days and nights with their grandparents and heard stories about Conrad Yoder(1) around the table and the fireside.
But sometimes he said to the author that Conrad Yoder(1) may have lived for a while in the Palatinate of southwestern Germany before coming to America.
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