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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONRAD IV . (1228-1254), See also:German See also:king, son of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II. and See also:Isabella of Brienne, was See also:born at Andri a in See also:Apulia on the 26th of See also:April 1228. In 1235 he was made See also:duke of See also:Swabia and in 1237 was chosen king of the See also:Romans, or German king, at See also:Vienna, in See also:place of his See also:half-See also:brother See also:Henry, an See also:election which was subsequently confirmed by the See also:diet at See also:Spires. After spending some See also:time in See also:Italy he returned to See also:Germany and began to take See also:part in the See also:quarrel which had arisen between the emperor and the See also:pope. In 1240 he called an See also:assembly to See also:Eger, where many of the princes declared openly against the pope, and was soon in arms against Siegfried, See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz, the See also:leader of the papal party in Germany. Although defeated near See also:Frank-fort in See also:August 1246 by the See also:anti-king, Henry See also:Raspe, See also:landgrave of Thuringia, he obtained help from the towns and from his See also:father-in-See also:law See also:Otto II,, duke of See also:Bavaria, and drove Henry Raspe to Thuringia. He was carrying on the struggle against Henry Raspe's successor, See also:William II., See also:count of See also:Holland, when the emperor died in See also:December 1250, and a, few days later Conrad narrowly escaped assassination at See also:Regensburg. Assuming the See also:title of king of See also:Jerusalem and See also:Sicily, he raised an See also:army by pledging his Swabian estates and marched to Italy in 1251, where with the help of his illegitimate half-brother, See also:Manfred, he over-ran Apulia and took See also:Capua and See also:Naples. He was preparing to return to Germany at the See also:head of a large army when he died at Lavello on the 21st of May 1254. In See also:September 1246 he married See also:Elizabeth (d. 1273), daughter of Otto of Bavaria, by whom he See also:left a son, See also:Conradin, whom he had never seen. See F.

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Die letzten See also:Hohenstaufen (See also:Gottingen, 1870; C. Rodenberg, Innocenz IV. and das Konigtum Sicilien, 2245–r254 (See also:Halle, 1892) ; J. Kempf, Geschichte See also:des deutschen Reiches wdhrend des grossen Interregnums (See also:Wurzburg, 1893); and. E. See also:Winkelmann, Kaiser See also:Friedrich H. (See also:Leipzig, 1889).

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