Conrad I

Conrad I
died A.D. 918, king of Germany 911-918.

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died Dec. 23, 918

German king (911–918).

The duke of Franconia and a member of the powerful Franconian dynasty known as the Conradines, Conrad was elected king on the death of the last of the East Frankish Carolingian rulers. His reign was a bitter struggle to maintain the traditions of Carolingian kingship against the growing power of Saxon, Bavarian, and Swabian dukes. Conrad failed to gain the support of the church, and his military campaigns were unsuccessful. Unable to establish his family as the royal house of the eastern Franks, he is reported to have proposed his opponent, Henry of Saxony, as his successor.

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▪ king of Germany

died Dec. 23, 918
 German king from 911 to 918 and member of the powerful Franconian dynasty known as the Conradines.

      Duke of Franconia, Conrad was elected German king on Nov. 10, 911, at Forchheim, after the death of Louis the Child, the last of the East Frankish Carolingians. It is not clear whether Conrad was supported by all the German nobles east of the Rhine or only by the Franks and Saxons. Between the East and West Frankish kingdoms, the Lotharingian nobles turned to the West Frankish Carolingian, Charles III. In 913 Conrad married Kunigunde, a member of the Alaholfing family of Swabia. His reign was a bitter and bloody struggle to uphold the traditions of Carolingian kingship against the growing power of the Saxon, Bavarian, and Swabian dukes. His attempt to mobilize the episcopate in this cause at the synod of Hohenaltheim (916) could not compensate for the failure of his military campaigns. Conrad was in fact unable to establish his family as the new royal house in the East Frankish kingdom, and shortly before his death he is reported to have proposed his opponent, the Liudolfing Henry of Saxony, as his successor.

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