Conradines
The Conradines were an aristocratic and ruling family of the West Germanic Franks from the 8th to 11th centuries. Your original rule focus was the area around Trier; even during the Carolingian rule shifted the east over the Lahngau in the middle East Frankish kingdom to Hesse and Thuringia. With Konrad I, the family presented 911-918 King of the East Frankish kingdom one.
History
A first mention is the family 832 with the Count Gebhard in Niederlahngau, a second 861, are mentioned as his sons as propinqui ( close relatives ) of the Seneschal Adalhard who years earlier alongside Louis the Pious and his wife, the Empress Judith, the Frankish Empire had administered. They were 861 deposed by Louis the German and fled with Adalhard to Charles the Bald, but dive 866 again in the wake of Louis the Younger on, a son of Louis the German. The ancestors of the family were close relatives of the Carolingians.
The rise of the Conradines began with Oda, wife of Emperor Arnulf of Carinthia, which was one of the Konradihaus agents, without the exact reference is known. Conrad the Elder is - called nepos (nephew, cousin, grandson, descendant ) of the Emperor - because of its kinship with Oda. He and his brothers were apparently also the closest relatives of the emperor who greatly assisted in his fight against Popp Onen on the Conradines and them in this context - in addition to their power base in Hesse - gave supremacy in Thuringia and Franconia.
After the death of Arnulf Conradines the only relatives of the new king, Louis the Child, the dominant clan in the kingdom were. They were at that time already well branched. Konrad's brother Gebhard was 903 Duke of Lorraine. Conrad's son Conrad the Younger was 906 appointed Duke of Franconia, after following the Battle of Fritzlar in which his father was killed, the competition of the Frankish Babenberg had been turned off ( Babenberg feud ).
911, after the death of the last Carolingian to the East Frankish throne, Konrad was the younger instead of the West Frankish king Charles III. selected the Simple in Forchheim as Conrad I to the East Frankish king, thus ending the rule of the Carolingian Empire in the East Frankish.
Konrad died childless in December 918, and the crown went to the election of Henry I. to the Saxon dukes ( Ottonian ). Thus the Conradines fell back in the power level of tribal dukes. Konrad's brother Eberhard, his successor as Duke of Franconia, the new Saxon King Heinrich I was loyal to his life and was a fief of the latter, even temporarily ( 926-928 ) with the Duchy of Lorraine, to pacify it. But when Henry's son Otto I King ( and Emperor ), was Eberhard had a together with Arnulf of Bavaria and Thankmar, son of King Henry from his first marriage, to a revolt which finally 939 with the death of Eberhard in battle ended by Andernach and the loss of the duchy. In this battle, he was defeated by his cousins Konrad Kurzbold and Udo von Wetterau. Next succeeded the family, the Duchy of Swabia to inherit 926. Although they lost it in the meantime the king's son Liudolf, but could it acquire 982 again and hold it until the year 1012.
The Conradines died in 1036 after the loss of even the last county in the male line from.
Master list
The master list of Conradines is controversial in the literature. The presentation below follows that of Schwennicke European in the genealogies, Volume I.1, 2005, at which views in the discussion work of Fried, Jackman, Hlawitschka and Wolf ( see below) were consulted.
By the end of the 10th century
In the 11th century
Open Issues
Numerous questions about the exact relationships within the Conradine American family and the other major families of the empire are unknown. In particular, the relations of the marriages of the daughters are unclear.
Thus, it is questionable whether the mother of Conrad the Red, the ancestors of the Salian emperors comes from the family of the Conradines. It could either be a sister or ( illegitimate ) daughter of King Conrad I.; a descent from Eberhard († 902/903 ) is possible.
The dispute in the specialized science revolves mainly around Duke Conrad of Swabia († 997) and his wife.
The identity of Duke Conrad with Kuno von Oehningen, Armin Wolf pointed out in 1980 (see below: Who was Kuno von Oehningen? ), Is now widely recognized.
Controversial, however, are on the one hand, the parents of Conrad. Erich Brandenburg saw it at the beginning of the 20th century as a younger son Udo, Count in the Wetterau, and his unnamed wife, a daughter of Count Heribert of Vermandois I.. For Wolf Conrad's parents are unknown, Jackman and Fried, however, call Duke Konrad (of Alsace, † 982 ) as a father, or Judith Jutta von Oehningen as his mother put it Gebhard (X 938 ) and Bishop of Strasbourg as Udo Udo's sons from the Wetterau one. Heinzelmann sees him more as a cognate Udo's grandson.
In addition, Duke Conrad of Swabia by Erich Brandenburg and the Count Konrad in the Rheingau ( 949) was identified, a relative of Duke Hermann I ( son of a cousin of Hermann I. ) But would this, if only because of old age, his son of the same which was 985 and 995 Count in the Rheingau in question - which on the other hand, the one led by Jackman and Fried Alsatian Duke Conrad would also classified genealogically.
Do not agree to the research also Conrad's wife. A position (eg Wolf) sees them as " filia Ottonis Magni imperatoris " ( Genealogia Welforum, Historia Welforum ), where " filia " generally as a descendant ( here: granddaughter) would translate, whose name was Richlint ( Jackman and Fried). If her father Emperor have been Otto's son Liudolf, then, would have been Richlint a granddaughter of Conrad's ( indirect ) predecessor as Duke of Swabia, Hermann I.. Another position is that of Dungern (1906 ) and Hlawitschka who see a Judith or Jutta, Hlawitschka also a daughter of Adalbert of Marchtal from the family of Ahalolfinger (see below: Wolf, Quasi hereditatem ... )