Konrad II. (Teck)

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Konrad II von Teck (* around 1235 ; † May 2, 1292 in Frankfurt am Main ) was Duke of Teck and was on the Staufer side in the Duchy of Swabia , which had been divided since 1246 . He supported Konradin von Schwaben until his execution in 1268 and from 1273 Rudolf I von Habsburg , who had set himself the goal of restoring the Staufer Duchy of Swabia. Around 1275 Konrad conducted diplomatic negotiations for him with Pope Gregor X. about Rudolf's coronation as emperor.

Family and Pope's dispensations

View over Owen to Teck Castle

According to Götz , Konrad married Uta (d. Before 1290), the daughter of Count Simon von Zweibrücken-Eberstein, around 1279. This marriage had four sons, Simon I (d. 1316), Konrad III. (died 1329), Ludwig III. (died 1334) and Friedrich I (died 1299/1303), who died early. In 1300 there is evidence of an unnamed sister of the four brothers: she could have been a daughter from Konrad's second marriage. On May 5, 1290, Pope Nicholas IV had given permission for the marriage between Konrad and Adelheid von Burgau, the daughter of Margrave Heinrich (d. 1286). This dispensation was necessary because both were related in the fourth canonical degree.

After the death of his brother Ludwig I von Teck in 1283, Konrad and his nephew Hermann I divided up Teck's property. These include Teck Castle and the town of Kirchheim unter Teck . From then on there were two lines.

Elected king?

After the death of Rudolf I in 1291, Konrad initially supported his son Albrecht of Austria in his candidacy for the royal crown, but when his opponents rejected the election of the king's son, the latter withdrew his candidacy.

According to the historian Armin Wolf , necrologies and a missal from the 13th and 14th centuries (preserved in copies from the 16th century) as well as the coat of arms on the tombstone of Konrad and his sons refer to Konrad as an electus in lively . According to Wolf's research, on April 30, 1292 in Weinheim, Albrecht's party members elected Konrad to be the king's candidate. According to Wolf, this (pre-) election was kept secret in order not to undermine further negotiations with the opposing party. Then Konrad traveled with his party members to Frankfurt, where other princes and bishops had also gathered to elect a king. There he was probably slain by his opponents around the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg on the eve of May 2, 1292 .

Konrad's skull actually indicates such a violent death. When the grave of Konrad and his three sons in Owen unter Teck was opened in 1579, it was found “that one of these had been given a violent stroke from a piston, which appears from the hole of a slab which is so large that one has a Hüner-Ey could push through it. ”However, other historians doubt the validity of the sources cited and point out in particular that Konrad's kingship remains unmentioned in all sources before the 16th century. In doing so, they overlook the fact that "Electus in Regem" does not mean that he was king, but merely a candidate whose election was prevented by the murder.

Burial place

Konrad's body is buried in the Marienkirche in Owen , where the burial place of the Dukes of Teck was. His tomb shows a crowned eagle's head, which is an indication of his election as king. However, representatives of the opposite view point to the uncertain dating of the grave decorations.

documentary

The film author and director Reinhard Kungel, in collaboration with the historian Armin Wolf and the lawyer Karl-Otto Alpers, staged Konrad's story under the title König for one day . The film was broadcast on February 12, 1997 by SDR and SWF (now SWR).

literature

  • Karl-Otto Alpers: A regicide 700 years ago? Konrad II von Teck, evidence suggests murder. In: Contributions to the local history of the Kirchheim unter Teck district, 55, 1992, pp. 17-22.
  • Eberhard Benz: Duke Konrad von Teck. In: Eberhard Benz and the old district of Nürtingen. Collected Writings. Nürtingen 1984, pp. 231-238.
  • Rolf Götz: Duke Konrad von Teck and the election of a king in 1292. Comments on Armin Wolf's work "King for a day: elected, murdered (?) And forgotten". In: ZSWLG, 53, 1994, pp. 27-40.
  • Rolf Götz: Duke Konrad and the election of a king from 1292. In: Contributions to local history of the Kirchheim unter Teck district, 13, 1971, pp. 51–58.
  • Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck . Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, ISBN 978-3-925589-49-2 .
  • Rolf Götz: Ways and wrong ways of early historiography . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5508-1 .
  • Frank Hoffmann: Konrad von Teck: "A king for a day". In: Contributions to local history of the district of Kirchheim unter Teck, 49, 1989, pp. 21–24.
  • Alfred Klemm: The tombstone of the dukes of Teck. In: Blätter des Schwäbischer Albverein , 1894, pp. 11–12.
  • Rudolf Locher: The burial place of the dukes of Teck. In: Contributions to local history of the Kirchheim unter Teck district, 21, 1975, p. 57.
  • Karl Pfaff: History of the Dukes of Teck. In: Württembergisches Jahrbuch für Vaterländische Geschichte, 1846, pp. 93–154.
  • Armin Wolf : King for a day: Konrad von Teck: elected, murdered (?) And forgotten (= series of publications by the Kirchheim unter Teck city archive, vol. 17). Kirchheim unter Teck 1993, 2nd expanded edition 1995. Review by Nadja Wendt in: Damals, 27,2, 1995, pp. 45–46; Another review by Alois Gerlich in: Nassauische Annalen, 105, 1994, pp. 420-421.
  • Armin Wolf: The emergence of the Kurfürstenkolleg 1198-1298. For the 700th anniversary of the first union of the seven electors (= historical seminar, NF, vol. 11). Idstein 1998, 2nd edited edition Idstein 2000, pp. 59–66.
  • Gerd Wunder: Duke Konrad II of Teck. In: Journal for Württembergische Landesgeschichte , 27, 1968, pp. 113–116.
  • Evelyn Rheingold: Te Deum - historical novel Anno Domini 1292 about the castle Teck . Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-7995-0660-1 .

Web links

Commons : Dukes of Teck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy . City archive, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, p. 24.
  2. ↑ Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy . Stadtarchiv, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, pp. 23–27.
  3. ↑ Rolf Götz: The dukes of Teck - dukes without a duchy . City archive, Kirchheim unter Teck 2009, p. 31f.
personal data
SURNAME Konrad II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konrad II of Teck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Teck
DATE OF BIRTH around 1235
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1292
Place of death Frankfurt am Main