Conrad IV of Fohnsdorf

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Konrad IV of Fohnsdorf (also Konrad Frohnsdorf-Preitenfurt or Konrad Praitenfurt ( Breitenfurt ); † March 28, 1312 ) was the 7th Bishop of Lavant from 1285 to 1291 and Archbishop of Salzburg from 1291 until his death .

After Archbishop Rudolf's death (August 3, 1290), Duke Stephan von Niederbaiern , Otto's son and Abbot Heinrich von Admont , the influential favorite and advisor to Duke Albrecht of Austria, applied for the Salzburg bishopric . A strong party worked for the Wittelsbach candidate, but the Pope rejected him and selected Konrad as Rudolf's successor from among the members of the Salzburg Chapter, denominated him and confirmed him on January 26, 1291.

The new archbishop had no minor difficulties in taking office, because the citizens of Salzburg, as former followers of the Wittelsbacher, sulked and behaved so stubbornly that Konrad, in order to better show the city the master, built a fort on the right Salzach -The shore was built. He soon found himself entangled in those quarrels with the abbot of Admont, the offended candidate of the archbishopric, and the Habsburg Albrecht I , which his predecessor, Rudolf, had already fought and which partly in the lopsided relationship between Salzburg and the Admont Abbey , partly rooted in border and toll disputes, partly in the salt monopoly. As 1291-92 winter with the Landsberger covenant the indignation of the Styrian Lord against their Duke Albrecht I and his favorite, Abbot Heinrich of Admont as Landesverweser, broke, Archbishop were Konrad and Duke Otto of Lower Bavaria ally of Steiermärker who Mauterndorf the Church princes won to join arms. But all too soon the Salzburg and Bavarian troops retreated from Albrecht I's fortune in arms (February 1292) and Archbishop Konrad experienced the terrible devastation of his main rule in Carinthia, Friesach, by the warriors of the Habsburgs, who with strength and wisdom quickly launched the uprising of the Styrians knew how to muffle.

The hostility between the two parties grew because on December 5, 1292, Konrad enfeoffed the regalia from the new German king, Adolf von Nassau , in Hagenau, who insisted on his favor, and it drew larger circles because the archbishop also spoke to the father-in-law of Hagenau Habsburgs, Duke Meinhard II of Tyrol and Carinthia was in feud and had the son of the latter, Ludwig, brought as a prisoner to Werfen Castle .

The throwing peace settlement of March 1293 between Archbishop Konrad and the dukes mentioned was just a brief interruption of the hostilities with the Habsburgs, as was the Linzer Taleid of May 24th. Because when the uprising of the Lower Austrian aristocrats broke out in 1295, Archbishop Konrad was their ally and was misled by the false news of the death of Albrecht I into destroying the duke's hated salt pans in Gosau near Hallstatt and killing and chasing the workers away to let. But the recovered Habsburg did not wait long for his vengeance and did not frighten the archbishop a little with the siege of Radstadt (July 1296). The peace of September 24, 1296 finally put an end to the long feud and regulated the neighborhood relationship between the two.

Henceforth we see the prince of the church and the Habsburg duke, then king, on friendly terms; so in the wars of the throne of 1298 and in the events of 1301, 1304 and 1305. The covenant relationship became ever closer and even after the death of King Albrecht I among his sons, especially in their fight with Bavaria from 1309-11. Archbishop Konrad, in whose day the dispute over Berchtesgaden went through one of its first phases and an important Salzburg Provincial Synod (1310) was held, was eager to acquire goods. So he brought Löschenthal, Lavamünd and above all the ore- rich "Grafschaft" Gastein ( Gastaun ) from the Baier dukes for 43,000  florins to the bishopric, which had been in their pledges since 1241.

Konrad von Fohnsdorf was buried in Salzburg Cathedral in front of the St. Andreas Altar that he donated.

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SURNAME Conrad IV of Fohnsdorf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Salzburg
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1312
Place of death Salzburg