Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
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He inherited a pair of counties as a child and ended up ruling an empire that spanned three kingdoms. Conrad II turned a Franconian inheritance into the foundation of a dynasty that would last a century.
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The son of a Franconian count who died around 990, Conrad inherited Speyer and Worms while still young. He built influence beyond those lands, winning favor among the kingdom's princes. When Emperor Henry II died without an heir in 1024, an assembly chose the 34-year-old Conrad as king. He borrowed heavily from his Ottonian predecessors — their church organization, their rulership style, their echo of Charlemagne — but immediately dropped Henry II's favoritism toward churchmen. In Italy he first leaned on German-origin bishops to hold power, then pivoted during his second expedition in 1036 to…
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