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  Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph, Frederick descended from Germany's two principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to the Imperial crown.
In 1147 Frederick became duke of Swabia and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanied his uncle, the German king Conrad III on the Second Crusade.
Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who became duke of Austria in compensation, to Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony.
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 Conrad II, Duke of Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Encyclopedia: Conrad II, Duke of Swabia
Conrad II of Hohenstaufen (1173 –; August 15, 1196) was duke of Swabia from 1191 to his death and Duke of Rothenburg (1188-1191).
See also: Dukes of Swabia family tree This is a Family tree of the Dukes of Swabia, from 1012 to the end of the Hohenstaufen dominion over the duchy in 1268.
Philip of Swabia (1177-1208), German king and duke of Swabia, the rival of the emperor Otto IV, was the fifth and youngest son of the emperor Frederick I and Beatrix, daughter of Renaud III, count of Burgundy, and consequently brother of the emperor Henry VI.
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 Henry (VII) of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son and co-king of Emperor Frederick II and elder brother of King Conrad IV of Germany.
Henry, the first son of Frederick II and Constance of Aragon, was born in 1211 in Sicily.
After Frederick II returned to Italy in 1220, Henry was placed under the tutelage of Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne, who crowned him as King on May 8, 1222, in Aachen.
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 Frederick Barbarossa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia (German Schwaben) and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph (or Welf), Frederick descended from Germany's two leading principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to royal crown.
The duchy of Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who became duke of Austria in compensation, to Frederick's formidable younger cousin Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, of the House of Guelph, whose father had already held both duchies.
Barbarossa's son, Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
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 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor : Conrad II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Conrad II (circa 990 - [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.
Conrad campaigned against Poland in 1028 and forced II of Poland">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.
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 CONRAD II. - LoveToKnow Article on CONRAD II.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
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.
In 5030 Ernest of Swabia was killed in battle; and in September 5032 the king of Burgundy died, and his kingdom was at once seized by his nephew Odo, -count of Champagne.
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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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph (or Welf), Frederick descended from Germany's two leading principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to royal crown.
Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who became duke of Austria in compensation, to Frederick's formidable younger cousin Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, of the house of Guelph/Welf.
His son Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
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 Hohenstaufen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick and Conrad, the two current male Staufens, were grandsons of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor and nephews of Henry V. After the death of the intervening king and emperor Lothar III of Supplinburg, in 1137, Conrad became Conrad III of Germany.
The Imperial Dynasty of Hohenstaufen,which descend from the Emperor Frederick II and the Empress Isabel von Plantagenet,lives on in the Imperial House Avril de Burey d'Anjou Hohenstaufen Plantagenet Hohenzollern Puoti Veruli Macedonio.
The Imperial Dynasty of Hohenstaufen,which descend from the Emperor Frederick II and the Empress Isabel von Plantagenet,lives on in the Imperial House Aprile -Avril de Burey d'Anjou Hohenstaufen Plantagenet Hohenzollern Puoti Veruli Macedonio.
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 Konrad II (c. 990-1039)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
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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 Charles Stubbs - Styribiorn Skotkonung of Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Duke Friedrich II of Swabia was born in 1090.
Duchess Gisele of Swabia was born in 999.
Hermann II of Swabia was born in 950.
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 Articles - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen (1090 – 1147) was duke of Swabia, succeeding his father, duke Frederick I in 1105.
Judith of Hohenstaufen (1123-1195), married Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine
Clarissa of Hohenstaufen (1135-1191), married Ludwig II, Duke of Thuringia
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 Mehitable Burgess - Duke Philip Valois of Burgundy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Duke Charles the Rash of Burgundy was born on 10 Nov 1433.
Holy Roman Emperor Conrad II Franconia of Burgundy was born in 990.
She was married to Hermann II of Swabia.
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 Hermann II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Hermann II Conrad and Hermann II, Dukes of Swabia
Conrad, Duke of Swabia, Count in the Rheingau, b abt 942, d 997.
She md Frederick II of Lorraine, Duke of Upper Lorraine, abt 1015, son of Thierry I of Lorraine, Duke of Upper Lorraine, and Richilde.
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 Sly's Twelfth Century Time Line
Conrad (later Conrad III of Germany) is given duchy of Franconia by his uncle Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire.
Conrad (soon to be Conrad III of Germany) and his brother Frederick II, duke of Swabia dispute Lothair II's succession to the throne of Germany.
Conrad (soon to be Conrad III of Germany) is elected king or anti-king of Germany, and a war breaks out between him and his rival, Lothair II of the Holy Roman Empire.
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 Read about Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
duke of Austria in compensation, to Frederick's formidable younger cousin Henry the Lion,
Henry II of England, before being allowed back into Germany, where he finished his days as duke of Brunswick, peacefully sponsoring arts and architecture, and died on 6 August 1195.
Frederick VI of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
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Conrad III Holy Roman Emperor was born in 1094 in Stauffen Castle, Swabia.
Conrad III of the House of Hohenstaufen, grandson of Henry IV of the Franconian line, came to rule Germany.
Conrad III Hohenstaufen, Holy Roman Emperor from Germany, took an army and headed for the Holy Land on the crusade instigated by Pope Eugenius III aabout 1147.
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 Frederick I, Duke of Swabia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
Frederick I von Staufen (1050 – July 21 1105) was duke of Swabia from 1079 to his death.
He was the first ruler of Swabia of the House of Hohenstaufen.
Frederick II of Swabia (1090-1147), the father of Frederick Barbarossa
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 German History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
First was duke of Franconia, and the second, Count-Palatine of Rhine, the most powerful noble in Franconia.
Eventually Conrad the Elder by promises ousted his opponent and became king as Conrad II.
Conrad II had a successful reign during which he re-established control over Slavic tribes (1025) lost by his predecessor, was recognized a feudal suzerain by Poland (c.1032), subdued Italian rebels and get an imperial crown (1026), secured for himself a succession of the kingdom of Burgundy which he inherited (not without an opposition) in 1033.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Emperor Conrad GERMANY, II ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
Conrad was an enterprising legislator, and he secured the succession for his son Henry and also enlarged his domain by conquering some Polish territory (1028) and inheriting the Kingdom of Burgundy (1032).
Left poor, Conrad was brought up by the Bishop of Worms and did not receive much of a formal education; but conscious of the deprivations suffered by him and his father, he matured early...In 1016 he married Gisela, the widowed Duchess of Swabia and a des- cendant of Charlemagne.
Conrad married Duchess Gisela SWABIA, daughter of Duke Hermann SWABIA, II and Gerberga De BOURGOGNE, on 21 Nov 1017.
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 frederick barbarossa
In 1147 Frederick Barbarossa became duke of Swabia and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanying his uncle, the German king Conrad III, on the Second Crusade.
Both asserted afterwards that Conrad had, in full posession of his mental powers, handed the royal insignia to Frederick and indicated that he, rather than his own six-year-old son, the future Frederick IV, Duke of Swabia, should succeed him as king.
His son Frederick V. of Swabia carried on with the remnants of the army, with the aim of burying the Emperor in Jerusalem, but efforts to conserve his body in vinegar failed.
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 Konrad III (1093-1152)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
The son of Frederick I, duke of Swabia, and grandson of Emperor Henry IV, Conrad was appointed duke of Franconia by his uncle, Emperor Henry V, in 1115.
The solitary success amid the general disorder in the empire was Conrad's expedition into Bohemia in 1142, where he restored his brother-in-law Vladislav II as prince.
In December 1146 Conrad took the cross, secured the election and coronation of his young son Henry as his successor, appointed Henry I, archbishop of Mainz, as his son's guardian, and, in the autumn of 1147, set out for Palestine on the Second Crusade.
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 All words on Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick in a 13th century Chronicle Frederick I Hohenstaufen (1122 – June 10 1190), also known as Frederick Barbarossa ("Frederick Redbeard") was elected king of Germany on March 4, 1152 and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on June 18 1155.
As son of Duke Frederick II of Swabia and Judith of Bavaria, from the rival House of Guelph (or Welf), Frederick descended from Germany's two principal families, making him an acceptable choice for the Empire's princely electors as heir to the Imperial crown.
Bavaria was transferred from Henry II Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who became duke of Austria in compensation, to Frederick's cousin Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, of the house of Guelph/Welf.
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 Family History - 66   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
SWABIA, Conrad II of (Duke of Swabia) 30th gt.
(Duke of Swabia) and Jutta ___; married Gerberga of BURGUNDY (the daughter of Conrad I 'The Peaceful' of Burgundy (King of Burgundy) and Matilda of France, the daughter of Louis IV 'd'Outre-Mer' of France (King of France)) before 985.
Bruno VON BRAUNSCHWEIG, Conrad II 'The Salic' of GERMANY, Ernst I VON BABENBURG), ii.
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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.
Gottingen, 1861); J. von Pflugk-Harttung, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Kaiser Konrads II.
and der Heimfall der burgundischen Krone an Kaiser Konrad II.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
She was married to Conrad John BURKHOLDER on 14 Aug 1881 in Somerset Co., Pennsylvania.
Konrad II Duke Of SWABIA and ROTHENBURG was born in 1172 in Schwaben, Bavaria.
Parents: Friedrich II Duke Of SWABIA and Judith Princess Of BAVARIA.
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 Hohenstaufen Dynasty --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The death of Frederick II in 1250 and of his son Conrad IV in 1254 heralded the irreversible decline of Hohenstaufen power in Germany and in the conjoint kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.
Conrad's infant son Conradin, heir to Naples and Sicily, remained in Germany under the guardianship of his Bavarian mother.
The half-brother of German king Conrad III and uncle of Frederick I Barbarossa, Otto was the bishop of Freising in Bavaria from 1138 until his death.
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 Marcus Antonius to Maite - tobg95.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Berengaria married (1) Conrad II, Duke of Swabia in 1188.
Urraca married Alfonso II "o Gordo", Rei de Portugal e Algarves son of Sancho I Martino Rei de Portugal e Algarves and Dulce (Aldonza) de Barcelona in 1206 in Toledo, Spain.
Berengaria married Jean I de Brienne, King of Jerusalem, Emperor of the East son of Erad II, Compte de Brienne and Agnes de Montfauçon in 1222.
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 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Norman Morse HILL
Adelheid) (931-999), queen of Italy and empress, was the daughter of Rudolph II of Burgundy and of Bertha, daughter of Duke Burchard of Swabia.
In 983, shortly before his death, she was appointed his viceroy in Italy; and was successful, in concert with the empress Theophano, widow of Otto II, and Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, in defending the right of her infant grandson, Otto III, to the German crown against the pretensions of Henry the Quarrelsome, duke of Bavaria.
HENRY II Duke of Bavaria, born 918 in Saxony; died 1024; married JUDITH Duchess of Bavaria Abt.
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