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Conrad II the Younger was the Count of Auxerre from 864 until his death in 876. He was a son of Conrad I of Auxerre [ 1 ] and Adelaide of Tours ; an older brother of Hugh the Abbot ; and a member of the Bavarian branch of the Welfs .
Conrad II succeeded his father as Count of Paris, and recovered the Burgundian estates of his grand-uncle Otkarius. He left an only son Rudolph who assumed the royal crown at the abbey of St Maurice en Valais in 888, who confirmed his independence with two victories over Arnulf , and was then acknowledged emperor in a general diet of the empire.
Conrad II of Auxerre, son of Conrad and Adelaide, 853–876; Hugh the Abbot, younger brother of Conrad II, 876–886; Richard the Justiciar, 886–921, married Conrad II's daughter Adelaide; Rudolph of France (also Raoul or Ralph), 921–923 until his election as King of France; Hugh the Black, 923–952; Gilbert of Chalon, 952–956; Otto of ...
Conrad's father was Welf. [2] He was one of the early Welfs, a member of the Bavarian branch, and his sister Judith was the second wife of Louis the Pious. In 858, he and his family, abandoned their sovereign Louis the German and went over to Charles the Bald, Judith's son. [1] They were generously rewarded and Conrad was appointed to many ...
3 October 825 – 864: County of Altdorf: Adelaide of Tours three children 864 aged 63-64: Welf I (b) c. 835 First son of Conrad I and Adelaide of Tours: 864 – 876: County of Altdorf: Unknown at least one child 876 aged 40-41: Also Count at Linzgau, Alpgau and possibly Argengau. Conrad II the Younger: c. 835 Second son of Conrad I and ...
Some sources call him Conrad III, since he was the third Conrad in his family: his great-grandfather was Duke Conrad II, whose father was Count Conrad I. Conrad succeeded his father as King of Burgundy in 937, with his future brother-in-law, the German king Otto I (later Holy Roman Emperor ), exercising the regency during Conrad's minority ...
The Kingdom of Upper Burgundy was a Frankish dominion established in 888 by the Welf king Rudolph I of Burgundy within the territory of former Middle Francia.It grew out of the Carolingian margraviate of Transjurane Burgundy (Transjurania, French: Bourgogne transjurane) southeast of (Latin: trans in the sense of 'beyond') the Jura Mountains together with the adjacent County of Burgundy ...
On his death, Provence divided between surviving brothers, Lothair II and the Emperor Louis II. The bulk goes to Louis. Louis II (863–875), also Holy Roman Emperor from 855 On his death, as with his Kingdom of Italy, Louis's Provence goes to his uncle Charles the Bald. Charles the Bald (875–877), also Holy Roman Emperor from 875