Konrad von Rosdorf

Konrad von Rosdorf (* around 1220 at Rosdorf Castle near Göttingen ; † December 24, 1271 in Kirchhasel-Hünfeld ) was Marshal of the County of Henneberg and, together with his brother Heinrich (known as Hassone) von Rosdorf, administered the Hessian-Thuringian-Henneberg possessions of the lords from Rosdorf. He carried the surname Konrad after his grandfather, Conrad von Rosdorf, who in 1155, in the service of Archbishop Arnold von Mainz, had documented it at Hardenberg Castle (Nörten-Hardenberg) together with his relative, Gumprecht von Rosdorf.

Life

Like his great-grandfather, Gottfried von Rosdorf (1135), Konrad von Rosdorf was in the service of the Counts of Henneberg. On June 11, 1265 he appeared in a document as Marshal Count Hermann I von Henneberg , on the occasion of the settlement of disputes with the Georgenthal monastery .

He gained notoriety in connection with the murder of the prince abbot of Fulda, Bertho II. Von Leibolz . Although he was called "Abbot Fingehut" because of his small stature, after his election in 1261, together with Landgrave Heinrich von Meißen , he vigorously fought the nobles and knights as fiefs of the Fulda Abbey, under the pretext of robber baronship. He had conquered 15 castles and largely destroyed them. Not only because of this he had made powerful enemies. A large part of Fulda's nobility was in dispute with Abbot Bertho II also because of extensive financial claims which the abbot owed the nobles. Due to the lack of compensation for their destroyed castles and palaces, an explosive mood had brewed among the affected nobility, also because the abbot could also accuse the abbot of forging documents and accounting fraud in many cases.

On the occasion of a service held by Abbot Bertho II in the Jacob's Chapel built by him - with the money from the nobility, some of which were wrongly raised and illegally withheld, the pent-up frustration and hatred of the nobles discharged on March 18, 1271. A total of 26 knights, among Konrad von Rosdorf, who, as in the case of Georgenthal Monastery, had actually come to mediate in the settlement of the dispute, murdered the hated prince or, like Marshal Konrad von Rosdorf, failed to rush to his aid. Pope Gregor X. declared Abbot Bertho II a martyr after his murder and pronounced the ban on his murderer and confidante - like Konrad von Rosdorf.

Bertho 's successor, Prince Abbot Bertho III. von Mackenzell set a trap for the murderers in Kirchhasel (Hünfeld) on Christmas 1271 , and had them cruelly stabbed, partially beheaded, by armed men during the Christmas service on December 25, 1271 in the church in front of children and their families. Konrad von Rosdorf was also killed in the slaughter. His cousin, Bertradis von Rosdorf, abbess of Kaufungen Abbey from 1269 to 1279 , donated an honorary memorial to him despite the ban on the church because she was convinced of his innocence.

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