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CONRAD I

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 965 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONRAD I . (d. 918), See also:German See also:king, son of Conrad, See also:count of Lahngau, was a member of an influential Franconian See also:family, and was probably related to the German king See also:Arnulf. He took See also:part in the See also:feud between his family and that of the Babenbergs, and after his See also:father's See also:death in 906 passed much of his See also:time at the See also:court of See also:Louis the See also:Child, and assumed the See also:title of " See also:duke in See also:Franconia." When Louis died in 911, Conrad was chosen German king at See also:Forchheim on the 8th of See also:November 911 owing to the efforts of Hatto I., See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz, and to the reputation he appears to have won in See also:war and See also:peace alike. Coming to the See also:throne he found the unity of See also:Germany threatened by the See also:Magyars and the See also:Normans from without, and by • the growing See also:power of the See also:stem-duchies from within. He failed, however, to bring See also:Lorraine into subjection, and was equally unsuccessful in his struggle with See also:Henry, duke of See also:Saxony, after-wards King Henry the See also:Fowler. His subsequent years were mainly spent in warfare in See also:Swabia and See also:Bavaria, but owing to See also:ill-See also:health old the feebleness of his forces he was only partially successful in his attempts to restore peace. He died on the 23rd of See also:September 918, and was buried at See also:Fulda. About 914 Conrad married Kunigunde, a See also:sister of Erchanger, count See also:palatine in Swabia, and widow of Liutpold, See also:margrave of See also:Carinthia. He had no sons, and named his former enemy, Henry of Saxony, as his successor. See E. See also:Dummler, Geschichte See also:des ostfrankischen Reichs (See also:Leipzig, 1887–1888) ; F.

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Stein, Geschichte des Konigs Konrad I. von Frankest and seines Hauses (See also:Nordlingen, 1872). F. L6her, See also:Konig Konrad I. and See also:Herzog Heinrich von Sachsen (See also:Munich, 1857) ; See also:Die Urkunde des deutschen Konigs Konrad I., edited by Th. von Sickel in the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Diplomata (See also:Hanover, 1879).

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