Conrad II of Italy

Konrad ( * February 12, 1074 in the monastery of Hersfeld, † July 27, 1101 in Florence), was Roman - German king from 1087 to 1098 and King of Italy from 1093 to 1098 He was also from 1076 to 1087 Duke of Lower Lorraine and Margrave. of Turin.

Life

Konrad was born in Hersfeld, the second son of Emperor Henry IV and Bertha of Turin ( an older brother, Henry, was born and died in the beginning of August 1071 ). Konrad has already been recognized at the age of two years, succeeding his father, and was there in the hallway of his father to Canossa between 1076 to 1077. At the same time he became duke of Lower Lorraine and has thus been preferred to the expected Godfrey of Bouillon. Konrad was left in the care of Archbishop Theobald of Milan and went to live in Italy.

He received the royal consecration on May 30, 1087 in Aachen. Konrad joined in 1093, through the influence of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, in the papal camp and thus the enemies of his father. Konrad was crowned in the same year in Milan for the King of Italy. Konrad made ​​in 1095, shortly after the synod of Piacenza to the Pope Urban II in Cremona security oath and knew the Stratordienst ( guiding the horse like a servant than Unterwürfigkeitsgeste ). Urban II secured Konrad then to the imperial coronation. In the same year mediated Urban II ( with Matilda of Tuscany ), the marriage between Conrad and Constance, daughter of Count Roger I of Sicily.

At these events, his father responded in a national assembly in April 1098 in Mainz. Henry IV was Konrad explained by a prince court deposed and simultaneously determine the younger son Henry as his successor. This Konrad could hardly influence political events in Italy. Conrad died at the age of 27 " become meaningless " in 1101 in Florence, where he was buried in the cathedral Santa Reparata, which is now built over the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

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