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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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