Conrad III (died 1061), a member of the

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dynasty, was

Duke of Carinthia The Duchy of Carinthia (german: Herzogtum Kärnten; sl, Vojvodina Koroška) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial Sta ...

and Margrave of Verona from 1056 until his death.

Life

He was son of

Hezzelin I Hezzelin I (also called Hezilo or Hermann), Count in Zülpichgau (died 1033), son of count palatine Hermann I of Lotharingia. He married a daughter of Duke Conrad I of Carinthia and had: * Heinrich I Count Palatine of Lotharingia The counts p ...

, count in the

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gau, and brother of Count palatine Henry I of Lotharingia. His mother possibly was a daughter of the late

Salian The Salian dynasty or Salic dynasty (german: Salier) was a dynasty in the High Middle Ages. The dynasty provided four kings of Germany (1024–1125), all of whom went on to be crowned Holy Roman emperors (1027–1125). After the death of the l ...

duke Conrad I of Carinthia. In 1055 he had joined the rebellion of his Ezzonid cousin Duke

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and Duke Welf of Carinthia against Emperor Henry III. Nevertheless, upon Henry's death in 1056, he was pardoned by his widow

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and enfeoffed with the Carinthian duchy. Conrad, however, did not succeed in imposing his authority on the powerful native aristocracy. He died five years later, having possibly never entered Carinthia. He was succeeded by the Zähringen duke Berthold II.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conrad 03, Duke of Carinthia Dukes of Carinthia 11th-century births 1061 deaths Ezzonids Year of birth unknown