See also:CONRAD (d. 955)
, surnamed the " Red," See also:duke of See also:Lorraine, was a son of a Franconian See also:count named See also:Werner, who had possessions on both See also:banks of the See also:Rhine
.
He rendered valuable assistance to the See also:German See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king See also:Otto, afterwards the See also:emperor Otto the See also:Great, and in 944 was made duke of Lorraine
.
In 947 he married Otto's daughter Liutgarde (d
.
953), and afterwards took a prominent See also:part in the struggle between See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis IV., king of See also:France, and See also:Hugh the Great, duke of See also:Paris
.
He accompanied his See also:father-in-See also:law to See also:Italy in 951, and when Otto returned to See also:Germany in 952, See also:Conrad remained behind as his representative and signed a treaty with Berengar IL, king of Italy, which brought about an estrangement between the German king and himself
.
He entered into See also:alliance with his See also:brother-in-law See also:Ludolf, and taking up arms against Otto, seized the See also:person of the king, afterwards resisting successfully an attack on See also:Mainz
.
He' then ravaged the lands of his enemies in Lorraine; treated with the See also:Magyars for support, but submitted to Otto in See also:June 954, when he was deprived of his duchy, though permitted to retain his hereditary possessions
.
He was killed on the Lechfeld on the loth of See also:August 955, while fighting loyally for Otto against the Magyars, and was buried at See also:Worms
.
He See also:left a son Otto, who was the grandfather of the emperor Conrad II
.
Conrad is greatly lauded for his valour by contemporary writers, and the historian See also:Widukind speaks very highly of his qualities both of mind and of See also:body
.
See Widukind, " Res gestae Saxonicae," in the Monumenta Germaniae historica
.
`Scriptures; See also:Band iii
.
(See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 18a6–189a); W. von Giesebreeht, Gdschichte der deutschen Kai3erzeit (See also:Leipzig, 1881) ; R
.
Kopke and E
.
See also:Dummler, Jahrbitcher See also:des deutschen Reichs unter Kaiser Otto I
.
(Leipzig, 1876) ; K
.
Kistler,
See also:Die Ungarnschlachtauf dem Lechfelde (See also:Augsburg, 1884)
.
CONRAD OF See also:MARBURG (c
.
1180-1233), German inquisitor,
was See also:born probably at Marburg, and received a See also:good See also:education, possibly at the university of See also:Bologna
.
It is not certain that he belonged to any of the religious orders, although he has been claimed both by the See also:Franciscans and the See also:Dominicans
.
See also:Early in the 13th See also:century he appears to have won some celebrity as a preacher, and in 1214 was commissioned by See also:Pope See also:Innocent III. to arouse See also:interest in the proposed crusade
.
After continuing this See also:work for two or three years Conrad vanishes from See also:history until 1226, when he is found occupying a position of See also:influence at the See also:court of Louis IV., See also:landgrave of Thuringia
.
He became See also:confessor to the landgrave's wife St See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary (q.v.), and exercised the landgrave's rights of clerical patronage during his See also:absence on crusade
.
In 1227 he was employed by Pope See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory IX. to extirpate See also:heresy in Germany, to denounce the See also:marriage of the See also:clergy, and to visit the monasteries
.
He carried on the crusade against heretics with great ze21 in See also:Hesse and Thuringia, but especially in the See also:district around the mouth of the See also:Weser inhabited by a See also:people called the Stedinger
.
In 1233 he accused See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II., count of Sayn, of heresy, a See also:charge which was indignantly repudiated
.
An See also:assembly at Mainz of bishops and princes declared Henry innocent, but Conrad demanded that this See also:sentence- should be reversed
.
This was his last work, for as he rode from Mainz he was murdered near Marburg on the 3oth of See also:July 1233
.
He left an Epistola ad papam de miraculis Sanctae Elisabethae,' which was first published at See also:Cologne in 1653
.
Conrad is chiefly known to See also:English readers through See also:Charles See also:Kingsley's See also:Saint's Tragedy, in which he is a prominent See also:character
.
See E
.
L
.
T
.
See also:Henke, Konrad von Marburg (Marburg, 1861), B
.
Kaltner, Konrad von Marburg and die See also:Inquisition in Deutschland (See also:Prague, 1882).; A
.
See also:Hausrath, Der Ketzermeister Konrad von See also:Mar-See also:burg (Leipzig, 1883); J
.
See also:Beck, Konrad von Marburg (See also:Breslau, 1871)
.
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