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CONRAD (d. 955)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 968 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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 .

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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 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 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 .

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Beck, Konrad von Marburg (See also:Breslau, 1871) .

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