HOHENSTAUFFEN, Konrad III

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• Name	HOHENSTAUFFEN, Konrad
  Suffix	III
  Gender	Male
  Death	1152
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  Person ID	I50648	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	HOHENSTAUFFEN, Duke Frederick Von I ,   b. Abt 1050, Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany Schwaben, Bavaria, Germanyd. 6 Apr 1105, Burcht Hohenstaufen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland (Age 55 years)
  Mother	WAIBLINGEN, Agnes Von ,   b. May 1072   d. 24 Sep 1143, Klosterneuburg, Markgrafschaft Ostarrich, HRR (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F24173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	SULZBACH, Gertrude Von
  Family ID	F24641	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Frederic having died, the Crown was now again contested between Conrad of Hohenstaufen and Henry the Proud, Duke of Saxony and heir to Lothaire. Conrad was elected March 7, 1137, and crowned on March 15. He was born at Ampulia in 1093. His mother was Agnes, daughter of Henry IV. He married Gertrude, Duchess of Sulzbach, in Bavaria. His title was disputed by Henry the Proud, of Saxony. A civil war ensued. Welf (Guelfo VI), brother of Henry the Proud, commanded one of the armies in the Battle of Wemsberg in 1140. Conrad gained a victory and the war was ended. In 1147 he conducted a large army of Crusaders into Palestine. He besieged Damascus but failed to take it, and returned in 1149. He died without issue in 1152, and was succeeded by his nephew. ---- In the first election for the crown of the empire they were beaten through the exertions of the Archbishop of Mainz who hated the Staufers on account of the support they gave to the Henrys. Lotha, a saxon, was chosen, but after his death, the star of the family began to rise, and in 1138 Konrad at a diet in Koblentz on the Rhine was elected King of the German and Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire, thus they had gotten from their farm in Suabiaon the throne of Charlemagne, or Karl the Great, as the Germans called him. But with honor came trouble, the mighty house of Guelph, or Welf in German, and of which the late Queen of England was almost the last representative, was in possession of the dukedoms of Saxony and Bavara and opposed the Staufers continually. Fighting hardly ever ceased, the partisans of each house starting the celebrated battle cry, "Heir Guelph, Hier Ghibelline," or in German "Hie Welf, Hi Waiblingen."The Italians could not pronounce the German words hence Guelph and Ghibelline. The fighting was first only amongst the different factions but it grew to such dimensions that it soon took in all Germany and Italy and finally ended so disastrously on the scaffold in Naples for the Staufers.