Conrad, Duke of Lorraine

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Conrad, Duke of Lorraine

Conrad the Red (; c. 922 – 10 August 955

955

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) was a Duke of Lorraine from the Salian dynasty

Salian dynasty

The Salian dynasty was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages of four List of German Kings and Emperors#Kings , also known as the Frankish dynasty after the family's origin and role as dukes of Franconia....
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He was the son of Werner V

Werner (Salian)

Werner V, count in the Nahegau, Speyergau and Wormsgau is the first definite progenitor of the Salian Dynasty of German kings.His father was Count Werner IV and his mother was a sister of king Conrad I of Germany....
, Count of the Nahegau, Speyergau

Speyer

Speyer is a city in Germany with approx. 50,000 inhabitants, located beside the river Rhine. It lies 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim....
, and Wormsgau

Worms, Germany

Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over title of "Oldest City in Germany"....
. His mother was a sister of Conrad I of Germany

Conrad I of Germany

Conrad I , called the Younger, was duke of Franconia from 906 and king of Germany from 911 to 918, the only king of the Conradine dynasty....
. In 941, he succeeded his father in his counties and obtained an additional territory, the Niddagau. In 944 or 945, he was also invested with Lorraine by King Otto I

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Otto I the Great , son of Henry I the Fowler and Matilda of Ringelheim, was Duchy of Saxony, King of Germany, King of Italy, and "the first of the Germans to be called the emperor of Italy" according to Arnulf of Milan....
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In 947, he married Liutgard, daughter of Otto

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Eadgyth

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, daughter of Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder

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, King of England.

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Conrad the Red (; c. 922 – 10 August 955

955

Events...
) was a Duke of Lorraine from the Salian dynasty

Salian dynasty

Werner (Salian)

Speyer

Speyer is a city in Germany with approx. 50,000 inhabitants, located beside the river Rhine. It lies 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim....
, and Wormsgau

Worms, Germany

Conrad I of Germany

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Eadgyth

Edward the Elder

Edward the Elder was Kingdom of England . He was the son of Alfred the Great and Alfred's wife, Ealhswith, and became King upon his father's death in 899....
, King of England. He and Liutgard had one son, Otto of Worms, later duke of Swabia and Carinthia

Duchy of Carinthia

The Duchy of Carinthia was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was part of the Holy Roman Empire from 976 until the dissolution of the Empire in 1806, and a crownland of Austria-Hungary until its dissolution in 1918....
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In 953, Conrad joined his brother-in-law, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia

Liudolf, Duke of Swabia

Liudolf was the duke of Swabia from 950 until 954. He was the only son of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Germany, from his wife Eadgyth, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of England....
, in rebellion against Otto, who bitterly complained about Conrad's ingratitude. The rebellion was quashed and Conrad was deprived of Lorraine, which was instead granted to Otto's brother, Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne

Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne

Bruno the Great or Bruno I was Archbishopric of Cologne, Germany, from 953 until his death, and Duke of Lotharingia from 954. He was the brother of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Germany and later Holy Roman Emperor....
. Eventually Conrad and Otto were reconciled.

In 954 Conrad participated in a successful campaign against the Ukrani of the Uckerland

Uckermark

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. In 955, Conrad was killed in the Battle of Lechfeld

Battle of Lechfeld

The Battle of Lechfeld , often seen as the defining event for holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Western Europe, was a decisive victory by Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, over the Magyar leaders, the horka Bulcs? and the chieftains L?l and S?r....
while fighting alongside Otto against the Magyars. According to the chronicler Widukind of Corvey

Widukind of Corvey

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Duke Conrad, the foremost of all in combat, suffering from battle fatigue caused by an unusually hot sun, loosened the straps of his armor to catch his breath when an arrow pierced his throat and killed him instantly.

Conrad's body was carried in state to Worms

Worms, Germany

Worms Cathedral

Cathedral of St Peter is the principal church and chief building of Worms, Germany, Germany. Along with Speyer Cathedral and Mainz Cathedral, it ranks among the finest Romanesque architecture churches along the Rhine....
by his son Otto. Conrad was the great-grandfather of Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor

Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor

Conrad II was the son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Henry of Speyer and Adelaide of Alsace, who inherited the titles of count of Speyer and of Worms, Germany as an infant when Henry died at age twenty....
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Sources

Weinfurter, Stefan. The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition, 1999