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Conrad I (c.
890–
December 23 918), called
the Younger, was duke of
Franconia from 906 and
king of Germany from 911 to 918, the first and only king of the
Conradine (or Franconian) dynasty. Though Conrad never used the title "king of Germany" (
rex Teutonicorum), he was the king of
East Francia as the elected successor of the
Carolingian Louis the Child and this kingdom evolved into Germany in the following century.
Conrad was the son of
Conrad, Duke of Thuringia, and
Glismut, daughter of Emperor
Arnulf of Carinthia. The
Conradines, counts in the
Lahn region, and the
Babenbergs, counts in the Main area, competed vigorously for predominance in Franconia. In 906, they battled each other near
Fritzlar. Conrad the Elder was killed, as were two of the three Babenberg brothers; the third was executed shortly thereafter, despite a promise of safe conduct by archbishop
Hatto I of
Mainz, the Kingdom's chancellor. Conrad the Younger became Duke of Franconia after this.
Conrad married the sister of the
Swabian count
Erchanger to patch up relations in 913. Cunigunda, widow of
Liutpold and mother of Duke
Arnulf of Bavaria, gave him two children: Cunigunda and
Herman, both born in 913.
Conrad was elected King of the East Frankish Kingdom on
November 10,
911, at
Forchheim after the death of his uncle, the last East Frankish Carolingian, Louis the Child.
His reign was a continuous and generally unsuccessful struggle to uphold the power of the kingship against the growing power of the dukes of
Saxony,
Bavaria and
Swabia. His military campaigns were failures, and his attempt to mobilize the bishops to his cause at the synod of
Hohenaltheim (916) wasn't enough to compensate. Conrad died on
December 23,
918 at
Weilburg. He is buried at
Fulda.
On his deathbed, he persuaded his brother,
Margrave Eberhard of Franconia, to offer the crown to
Henry the Fowler, duke of Saxony and one of his principal opponents, since he considered Henry to be the only prince capable of holding the Kingdom together in the face of internal rivalries among the dukes and the continuous raids of the
Hungarians. Eberhard and the other Frankish nobles accepted Conrad's advice, and Henry was elected king, as Henry I, at the
Reichstag of 919 in
Fritzlar.
Eberhard succeeded Conrad as duke of Franconia. He was killed in 939 at the Battle of
Andernach during his rebellion against Emperor
Otto I, and the duchy of Franconia became a direct Imperial possession from 939 to 1024.
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