Konrad (Staufer) von Schwaben (1167 - 1191)

Born Feb 1167 in Modigliana, Status Pontificius, Sacrum Romanum Imperium

Ancestors

Died 20 Jan 1191 at age 23 in Accon, Regnum Hierosolymitanum

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Biography

Konrad was born in 1167 in Mutilianum, now Modigliana^[1] as the third son of Friedrich Barbarossa and Beatrix von Burgund. After the death of his older brother Friedrich V he was renamed and appears in the literature as Friedrich VI. In contemporary records he is named either Konrad^{[2][3][4][5][6]} or Friedrich.^[7][8] He participated in the third crusade and died 20 Jan 1191 during the siege of Acre from disease.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Sources

1. ↑ Marco Tabarrini, Cronache dei secoli 13. e 14: Annales Ptolemaei Lucensis, Sanzanome iudicis gesta Florentinorum, Diario di ser Giovanni di Lemmo da Comugnori, Diario d'anonimo fiorentino, Chronicon Tolosani canonici faventini, Chronicon Tolosani Cap. LVII, Firenze 1876, p. 637
2. ↑ Ex Gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I., MGH SS 27, p. 112
3. ↑ Ex Gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I., MGH SS 27, p. 123
4. ↑ Ex Radulfi Abbatis de Coggeshale Historia Anglicana, MGH SS 27, p. 346
5. ↑ Cronica S. Petri Erfordendis Mod., MGH SS rer. Germ. 42, p. 192
6. ↑ Sigeb. Contin. Aquicinctina, MGH SS 6, p. 426
7. ↑ Sigeb. Contin. Aquicinctina, MGH SS 6, p. 428
8. ↑ Sicardi Episcopi Cremonensis Cronica, MGH SS 31, p. 169
9. ↑ Bahâ-ad-Dîn Ibn Shaddâd, موت نجل ملك الألمان, Mort du fils du roi des Allemands in: Recueil des historiens des croisades. Historiens orientaux. Tome 3 / publ. par les soins de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris 1884, p. 208
10. ↑ Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Chronica Majora, vol. 2, De morte multorum apud Achon, London 1874, p. 370
11. ↑ Necrologium Zwifaltense, MGH Necr. 1, p. 243
12. ↑ Necrologium Sanctimonialium Weingartensium, MGH Necr. 1, p. 233