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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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