Konrad I. (Württemberg)

Konrad I (also Konrad von Wirtinisberc, C (u) onradus de Wirdeberch) was lord of Württemberg from 1083 to 1110; it was first mentioned in 1081.

Wirtemberg Castle around 1600

Konrad was the son of a noble lord von Beutelsbach and probably a descendant of the Salian dukes Konrad I and Konrad II of Carinthia. He was a brother of Hirsau abbot Bruno von Beutelsbach († 1120) and Liutgard von Beutelsbach and the husband of an unspecified Werntrud. He is considered to be the progenitor of the von Württemberg family .

Konrad built a castle on the Wirtenberg ( Wirtemberg ) near today's Stuttgart-Untertürkheim around 1083 . He moved his residence there and named himself after the new castle.

This Konrad appears under his new name without a date, but without a doubt in the years 1089 to 1092, as a witness to the so-called Bempflingen Treaty of Count Kuno von Wülflingen and Liutold von Achalm with their nephew Count Werner von Grüningen . On May 2, 1092 he is mentioned in Ulm , again as a witness when goods were handed over to the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen in the vicinity of the Dukes Berchtold and Welf. This is the first time the name has been mentioned in a complete, admittedly not actually original, document. In both cases, Konrad I appears in close association with supporters of the party hostile to Emperor Heinrich IV . The fact that the bishop of Worms was invited to the inauguration of the castle chapel instead of the bishop of Constance , in whose district this chapel was located, is in line with his political position , because the bishop of Worms was also anti-imperial.

Even earlier, perhaps in the years 1080 to 1087, Konrad had, according to the Hirsau donation book, participated in an awarding of his brother Bruno von Hirsau. Both he and his wife were benevolent of the monastery. In this book he is referred to as the “mighty man among the Swabians”.

literature

• Dieter Mertens : Konrad (I.). In: Sönke Lorenz , Dieter Mertens, Volker Press (eds.): Das Haus Württemberg. A biographical lexicon. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-17-013605-4 , p. 8 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
––	Lord of Wirtemberg 1083–1110	Konrad II.