Egeno II of Konradsburg (also ''Conradsburg'') was a free knight of Konradsburg, in the northeast of the

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. Egeno II may have been the son or grandson of

Egeno I of Konradsburg Egino or Egeno may refer to: * Egino, Duke of Thuringia *Egino IV, Count of Urach Egino IV (; c. 1160 – 12 January 1230), also written as Egeno or Egon, and called the Bearded, was Count of Urach from 1181 to 1230 and co-ruler of the County of ...

. Around 1080 (after 1076, before 1083) Egeno II killed Count Adalbert II of Ballenstedt from the

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Westdorf Westdorf is a village and a former municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the town Aschersleben Aschersleben () is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt ...

near

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. Adalbert was the ''

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'' of Nienburg and Hagenrode and had been imprisoned from 1075 to 1077. The reasons for the murder are not particularly clear. There may have been political motives or Egeno may have acquired Ascanian estates during Adalbert's time in captivity and the two parties ended up feuding. Egeno was made to give up his family seat of Konradsburg to atone for the murder and the castle was turned into a

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monastery. According to legend, the stone cross of Westdorf recalls the crime. From 1115, the lords of Konradsburg destroyed the

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and built the new Falkenstein Castle, where the Saxon Law or ''

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'' was probably written a hundred years later on behalf of Count Hoyer of Falkenstein ( de). In 1142, the lords of Konradsburg are referred to for the last time as "von Konradsburg", thereafter they were "von Falkenstein".

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Genealogy of Egeno the Younger
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