Conrad I, Duke of Zähringen

Conrad I of Zahringen (* 1090, † January 8, 1152 in Konstanz ) was Duke of Zahringen and from 1127 Rector of Burgundy. He gave in 1120 along with his brother Berthold III. Freiburg im Breisgau market rights.

Konrad followed in 1122 his brother Berthold III. as Duke of Zahringen after. He turned most of his life against the power spread of the Staufer and allied himself with the Guelphs this temporarily.

In 1127 he came into conflict with Raynald of Burgundy, because both claim to the Burgundian possessions of Conrad 's murdered nephew William of Burgundy collected. Here benefited the Zähringian of the situation in which there was the German king. Because King Lothar III. strongly support against his rivals, the Staufer needed, he argued for Conrad's claims. The opposite side, he declined with the controversial grounds that Rainald was his obligation to the presence at the court failed to comply. At the same time he gave Conrad the title of rector of Burgundy, which is about a royal deputy stem corresponded.

With the seizure of power of King Conrad III. 1138, the relationship with the Staufen relaxed again, so that the Zähringers until the late 1150s were among the most loyal partisans. Conrad died in 1152 and was buried in the monastery of Saint Peter Zähringen house.

Marriage and issue

Conrad was married to Clementia of Namur - Luxembourg (House of Namur)

  • Adalbert, founder of the line of the Dukes of Teck
  • Berthold IV, Duke of Zahringen
  • Clementia, wife of Henry the Lion
  • Rudolf, Archbishop of Mainz.
  • Hugo von Ullenburg
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