Egeno I of Konradsburg

Egeno I. von Konradsburg (also Conradsburg ) was one of the noble free from Konradsburg , in the northeast of the Harz , near Ermsleben .

In 1070 Egeno I went public with the assertion that he was an accomplice in a conspiracy of the Saxon Count and Bavarian Duke Otto von Northeim against King Heinrich IV and that he had even received the order to murder the king. The aim of the plot was obviously the complete disempowerment of the Bavarian Duke and his expropriation; Access to Saxon and Thuringian areas would have been easy for Henry IV. Since Otto did not face the ordained divine judgment, a duel with the socially far lower and, moreover, badly reputed Egeno, the imperial ban was imposed on him. Otto then allied himself with Magnus Billung and took up arms, but had to admit defeat in 1071 and was temporarily imprisoned.

Count Giso II from the Gison family and Count Adalbert von Schauenburg were named as instigators and authors of the plot . With the knowledge of Henry IV, they should have forged the plan, formulated the indictment and brought it to the public through the purchased Egeno. Giso and Adalbert were slain in 1073 by Otto's followers at the Gisonen-Burg Hollende .

Egeno is said to have been blinded in 1073 as a punishment for a street robbery and then roamed the country as a beggar.

Probable tribe list

Egino (Agino) von Kakelingen, probably appears as the ancestor of the Lords of Konradsburg in 944
- Burkhard I. von Kakelingen
  - Egeno I. von Konradsburg (before 1021-1089?), The elder, cousin of Alvericus de Kakelinge from the house of the Counts of Plötzkau; Barter transactions are attested in 1021
    - Burchard II of Konradsburg (1054–1109), the elder
      - Egeno II of Konradsburg (before 1076–1131?), The younger
        Burchard von Konradsburg, the younger

personal data
SURNAME	Egeno I of Konradsburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Egeno I of Conradsburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Edelfreier from Konradsburg
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1021
DATE OF DEATH	after 1089