Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia
| Conrad I | |
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| Duke of Carinthia | |
Conrad I Dux, Chronica sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne, about 1237
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| Spouse(s) | Matilda of Swabia |
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| Father | Otto I, Duke of Carinthia |
| Mother | Judith |
| Born | c. 975 |
| Died | 12 or 15 December 1011 |
| Buried | St Peter's Dom, Worms |
| Religion | Catholic |
Conrad I (c. 975 – 12 or 15 December 1011), a member of the Salian dynasty, was Duke of Carinthia from 1004 until his death.
He was the third son of Duke Otto I of Carinthia (d. 1004), who at the time of his birth ruled the Wormsgau in Rhenish Franconia. Conrad thereby was the younger brother of Count Henry of Speyer (d. about 990), the father of the first Salian emperor Conrad II, and of Bruno (d. 999), who prepared for an ecclesiastical career and became the first German Pope as Gregory V in 996. Their Salian grandfather Conrad the Red had been a loyal supporter of King Otto I of Germany and in turn was enfeoffed with the Duchy of Lotharingia (Lorraine) in 944. He built close relations with the ruling Ottonian dynasty by marrying the king's daughter Liutgarde in 947. However, in 953 he was deposed upon his involvement in an unsuccessful rebellion by Otto's son Duke Liudolf of Swabia against his uncle Duke Henry I of Bavaria.
Conrad's father Otto of Worms ruled over several Frankish Gaue, he was first vested with the Duchy of Carinthia in 978 by Emperor Otto II after the deposition of the Luitpolding duke Henry the Younger in the War of the Three Henries. Otto of Worms remained a supporter of the Ottonian dynasty, even though he had to renounce the duchy, when the emperor's widow Theophanu reconciled with Henry the Younger in 985. Not until the death of the Ottonian duke Henry the Wrangler in 995, he was again vested with Carinthia and also ruled in the March of Verona.
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