Conrad III (died 1061), a member of the
Ezzonid dynasty, was
Duke of Carinthia
The Duchy of Carinthia (; ; ) 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 State after the original German stem duchy, stem duc ...
and
Margrave of Verona from 1056 until his death.
Life
He was son of
Hezzelin I, count in the
Zülpichgau, and brother of Count palatine
Henry I of Lotharingia. His mother possibly was a daughter of the late
Salian duke
Conrad I of Carinthia.
In 1055 he had joined the rebellion of his Ezzonid cousin Duke
Conrad I of Bavaria and Duke
Welf of Carinthia against Emperor
Henry III. Nevertheless, upon Henry's death in 1056, he was pardoned by his widow
Agnes of Poitou
Agnes of Poitou ( – 14 December 1077) was the queen of Germany from 1043 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1046 until 1056 as the wife of Emperor Henry III. From 1056 to 1061, she ruled the Holy Roman Empire as regent during the ...
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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Dukes of Carinthia
11th-century births
1061 deaths
Ezzonids
Year of birth unknown