Konrad I (Swabia)

Konrad I , who also appeared as Kuno von Öhningen , († August 20, 997 ) from the house of the Konradines was Duke of Swabia from 983 to 997. According to a post-dated document, he founded the Öhningen monastery in 965 . The correctness has not been confirmed so far (1966), but has not been refuted either.

Life

Konrad was probably with Reginlint married to a daughter of the Duke of Swabia after an isolated view Liudolf from the family of Liudolfinger and a granddaughter Emperor I. Otto was.

After the Swabian Duke Otto I died unmarried, childless and unexpectedly on an Italian campaign in 982, Emperor Otto II occupied the Duchy of Swabia with Conrad I, probably his brother-in-law, and thus again with a Franconian and probably a distant relative of the former Duke Hermann I.

The appointment of Konrad, who was loyal to the emperor, was documented in 983 at the court day in Verona ; he and his successors were called "dux Alemannorum et Alsatiorum" (or "Duke of the Swabians and Alsatians" as in a royal charter from 988), Strasbourg was their capital ("caput ducatus"), the focus of the dominion shifted significantly North.

Konrad was the first Duke of Swabia who managed to keep the title in the family: Hermann II was his son, Hermann III. his son, Ernst I, the son-in-law of Hermann II and Ernst II, and Hermann IV's sons of Ernst I, so that something like dynastic continuity arose for the first time for more than fifty years - although not planned by the incumbent.

family

Konrad had at least 7 children:

• Liutold, laicus
• Konrad, laicus
• Hermann II , † May 2 or 3, 1003, 996 Dux, 997 Duke of Swabia , 1002/1003 candidate for the king's election; ⚭ around 986 Gerberga of Burgundy, † July 7th 1019, maybe also 1018, daughter of Conrad III. the Friedfertige ( Pacificus ) King of Burgundy ( Welfen ), widow of Count Hermann von Werl
• Ita von Öhningen ⚭ Rudolf II. Count von Altdorf († March 10th ...) ( Welfen )
• Daughter ⚭ after 1011 Vladimir I. Svyatoslavich , Vladimir the Holy, † July 15, 1015, Grand Duke of Kiev ( Rurikids )
• Judith ⚭ I NN (from Rheinfelden ), ⚭ II Adalbert Graf von Metz , † 1033, ( Matfride )
• Kunizza, † 1020, ⚭ Friedrich I., 1003/1027, count probably von Dießen

literature

• Armin Wolf : Who was Kuno "von Öhningen". Reflections on the Duchy of Konrad of Swabia († 997) and the election of a king in 1002. In: German archive for research into the Middle Ages . Volume 36, 1980, pp. 25-83,
• Donald C. Jackman : The Konradiner. A Study in Genealogical Methodology (= Studies on European Legal History. Publications of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Volume 47). Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-465-02226-2 .
• Johannes Fried : Prolepsis or Death. Methodical and other remarks on the Konradin genealogy in the 10th and early 11th centuries. In: Johannes Dahlbauer u. a. (Ed.): Papal history and regional history. Festschrift for Hermann Jakobs on his 65th birthday. Cologne u. a. 1995.
• Armin Wolf: Quasi hereditate inter filios. On the controversy about the right to vote for kings in 1002 and the genealogy of the Konradines . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History German Department . Volume 112, 1995, pp. 64-157.
• Eduard Hlawitschka : Konradiner genealogy, inadmissible relatives marriages and late Ttonian-early Salian occupation of the throne. A look back at 25 years of research disputes . MGH , Studies and Texts 32, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-7752-5732-2 .
  • an open-ended review by Caspar Ehlers, Max Planck Institute for History , Göttingen, in: Concilium medii aevi 7 (2004) pp. 1017-1018 online (available as a pdf on this page)
  • a largely positive review by Franz-Reiner Erkens can here be found
• Franz Josef Jakobi:  Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 527 ( digitized version ).
• P. Stälin :  Konrad I. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 618 f.

Web links

• Konrad (Kuno) von Öhningen and his family at the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Remarks

1. ^ Karl Schmidt : Problems with Count Kuno von Öhningen and Paul Zinsmaier : The forged certificate of Emperor Otto I for the Provoste Öhningen. In: Herbert Berner : Village and Monastery of Öhningen . 1966, pp. 43-89 and 95-107.

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto I.	Duke of Swabia 983-997	Hermann II.