Konrad (Staufer) von Staufen (bef. 1136 - 1195)

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Biography

Konrad von Staufen was most likely born in the first half of the 1130's as his parents, Friedrich II von Schwaben and Agnes von Saarbrücken^[1] married during the same time period.^[2] Otto von Freising described him as parvulus in 1147^[3] but he had already joined his half-brother's first expedition to Rome in 1155^[4] and in 1156 he witnessed the document creating the Duchy of Austria.^[5] In 1158 he is in primo iuventutis sue flore (in the first flower of his youth),^[6] although erroneously named Ludwig.
He became Pfalzgraf bei Rhein after the death of Hermann von Stahleck in late 1156.^[7] On 6 Jan 1157 he witnessed a diploma of Friedrich Barbarossa as palatinus comes Rheni.^[8] Konrad was married to Irmgard von Henneberg, probably around 1160. She is called palatina Rheni in an undated letter of her father.^[9] A widely published first marriage to an unnamed and undocumented daughter of Gottfried I von Sponheim^[10][11][12] is not supported by primary documentation. Her purported burial at Schönau Abbey is also not supported by any documentation. A Verzeichnis der in Schönau beigesetzten Personen lists only Konrad and his wife Irmgard.^[13] Konrad died in 1195,^[14] the commonly accepted day of death, 8 Nov, is according to Arnold Busson based on his epitaph which was created much later.^[15] Following his wishes he was buried at Schönau Abbey.^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ Burchardi et Cuonradi Urspergensium Chronicon, MGH SS 23, p. 345
2. ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis I. 21, MGH SS 20, p. 362
3. ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis I. 39, MGH SS 20, p. 373
4. ↑ Gesta Friderici Imperatoris Ottonis Frisingensis II. 16, MGH SS 20, p. 399
5. ↑ Friderici I. Imp. Constitutiones, MGH LL 2, p. 101
6. ↑ Vincentii Pragensis Annales A. 1158, MGH SS 17, p. 672
7. ↑ Johann Friedrich Böhmer, Fontes Rerum Germanicarum. 3, Kalendarium Necrologicum Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Moguntinae, J. G. Cotta 1843, p. 142
8. ↑ Friedrich I. 156, MGH DD F I. 1, p. 269
9. ↑ Christian Schöttgen, Georg Christoph Kreysig, Diplomataria et scriptores historiae Germanicae medii aevi cvm sigillis aeri incisis: Tomvs III, De Monasteriis et Advocatiis Breitvngensibvs D III, Typis et svmtibvs Pavli Emanvel Richteri, 1760, p. 533
10. ↑ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, PFALZGRAFEN bei RHEIN 1156-1195, STAUFEN
11. ↑ Fuchs, Peter, "Konrad von Staufen" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 12 (1980), S. 520-523 (Online-Version)
12. ↑ Manfred Hiebl, Genealogie Mittelalter, Konrad, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein
13. ↑ Maximilian Huffschmid, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Cisterzienserabtei Schönau bei Heidelberg, Verzeichnis der in Schönau beigesetzten Personen, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, Volume 7; Volume 46, Karlsruhe 1892, pp. 69-103
14. ↑ Chronica Regia Coloniensis Continuatio I, MGH SS rer. Germ. 18, p. 158
15. ↑ Arnold Busson, Konrad Staufer, Pfalzgraf bei Rhein, in: Annalen des Historischen Vereins für den Niederrhein, insbesondere die Alte Erzdiözese Köln, (1868) Neunzehntes Heft. p. 19, Footnote 5
16. ↑ Valentin Ferdinand von Gudenus, Sylloge I variorum diplomatariorum monumentorumque veterum ineditorum adhuc, et res germanicas in primis vero moguntinas illustrantium, Codex Diplomaticus monasterii Schonaugiensis, Frankfurt am Main 1728, p. 49

• Wikipedia:Conrad,_Count_Palatine_of_the_Rhine.

• Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Hosted online by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG), accessed 2021. [1]