LORRAINE, Duke Conrad

Abt 918 - 955  (37 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	LORRAINE, Conrad
  Prefix	Duke
  Birth	Abt 918	Lorraine, Alsace, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Aug 955	Lachfeld
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  Person ID	I46718	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	SAXONY, Luitgard ,   b. Abt 930, Sachsen, Bavaria, Germany Sachsen, Bavaria, Germanyd. 18 Nov 953, Lorraine, Alsace, France (Age 23 years)
  Marriage	947
  Children	+ 1. CARINTHIA, Duke Otto ,   b. 948, Kärnten, Austria Kärnten, Austriad. 4 Nov 1004, Kärnten, Austria (Age 56 years)
  Family ID	F24325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Holy Roman Empire (dates vary) In 919 a new dynasty came to power in Germany with Henry the Fowler, Duke of Saxony. His son Otto I, the Great (936-73), was a capable and vigorous ruler who brought Germany to order and finally quashed the Hungarian menace. In 962 he invaded Italy, entered Rome and was crowned Emperor in St Peter's. He then proceeded to depose Pope John XII, who was scarcely an ornament to his high position. There can be no question that contemporaries looked back to the coronation of Charlemagne, but it is really from the sacring of Otto the story of the Holy Roman Empire begins; from this moment there is a series of rulers, under various titles and of differing powers, until the resignation of Francis II in 806(?). But the successors of Otto I never had suzerainty over France or Spain, while their power in Italy steadily declined down the centuries. Otto I normally styled himself 'Imperator Augustus:' it was probably his son, Otto II, who added the epithet 'Roman,' as a weapon in his dispute with the Byzantine Emperor Basil II. The adjective 'Holy' was introduced by Barbarossa in 1157. Otto III, whose mother was a Greek princess, had lofty ideas of re-establishing the Roman Empire of classical times with a Christian tincture, but his early death (1002) put an end to them. His immediate successors were more concerned with being efficient rulers of Germany, though they journeyed to Rome to be crowned.