Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine
Conrad of Hohenstaufen ( * ca 1134-1136; † 8 or November 9, 1195 ) was from 1156 to 1195 Count Palatine of the Rhine.
Life
His parents were Frederick II, Duke of Swabia and Agnes of Saarbrücken. Growing up is Konrad of Hohenstaufen in Alzey. He was a half brother of Emperor Barbarossa. This gave him in 1156 on the occasion of the Reichstag in Regensburg, the Count Palatine dignity. This Konrad received the bailiwick of the Cistercian monastery of Schoenau near Heidelberg, the Bishopric of Worms bailiwick and the family of the Hohenstaufen in Speyergau and Wormsgau. Konrad ( † 1197 ) was since about 1160 in second marriage with Ermengarde of Henneberg married the daughter of Count Berthold I of Henneberg, Viscount of Würzburg. Therefore came to his possession nor the bailiwick of the monastery Lorsch added. Eager to expand its sphere of influence, he came into conflict with the Archbishops of Trier and Cologne. The most well known conflict is the Rheinnecker feud. 1164 Konrad tried to obtain the original Palatinate Count's castle Rheineck under his control. The castle was in the meantime fallen into the hands of the Archbishop of Cologne. Both adversaries met at Andernach to battle that never came to pass, as Conrad did not dare to attack because of numerical superiority of Cologne.
Conrad is regarded as the founder of the city of Heidelberg.
Konrad and his two wives were buried in the monastery of Schönau. Conrad's heritage was the Elder of Brunswick to his daughter Agnes and her husband, Henry.
Progeny
Konrad married his first wife, an unnamed daughter of Count Godfrey I of Sponheim, probably 1159/60 died and was also buried in Schoenau. With her he had a son, Gottfried von Staufen ( † probably 1187/88 ).
From his second marriage he had three children:
- Friedrich ( † 3rd September to 1189 ),
- Konrad ( † probably 1186 ), buried in Schoenau,
- Agnes († May 9, 1204, buried in St. Mary's in Stade ), married on February 3, 1194 at the castle Stahleck Henry the Elder of Brunswick, Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1195 to 1212.