Conrad III. from Malkos

Portrait on a coin from his time as an abbot

Conrad III. From 1221 to 1249 von Malkos was the first prince abbot of the Fulda monastery .

Life

Knight Konrad came from Buchenland, the German name for Bukowina , today Ukraine and Romania .

Konrad had to fend off the territorial claims of the Counts of Ziegenhain . Despite the peace treaty with the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg , Hermann I von Lobdeburg , there were repeated disputes over the Hammelburg monastery property . Abbot Konrad put him to flight near Fulda. Bishop Hermann attacked again, a knight Konrad von Fulda hurried to the aid of the abbot, who had fallen from his horse, sat at the head of the "Fulda" and saved the city and church of Fulda. Abbot Konrad, recovered from his fall, pursued the episcopal army and chased it across the border. The abbot then had Hammelburg fortified and enclosed with a wall.

In 1247 he decided to resign as Abbot of Fulda, but demanded from Pope Innocent IV that the Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. von Eppstein should take over the government as coadjutor . The archbishop did not act in the direction of Konrad; he distributed the goods of the church, carried away valuable objects, removed a broken golden cross richly set with precious stones in order to have it repaired, but did not bring it back.

When Konrad III. von Malkos died is not known. His successor was Heinrich IV von Erthal .

Three seals have survived from his time of abbot . He also had coins minted; a coin shows under a three-pass bust portrait of the abbot with miter from the front, holding the crook with the crook inwards in his right hand and an open book in the raised left, five towers with domes above the three-pass.

Web links

• History of Fulda at pytlik.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chronicle of Fulda and its surroundings from 744 up to and including 1838 , Vacha 1839 p. 47/48

predecessor	Office	successor
Kuno	Prince Abbot of Fulda 1222–1249	Heinrich IV of Erthal