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Conrad, Count Palatine of the Rhine. Conrad of Hohenstaufen ( c. 1135 – 8 November 1195) was the first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine . His parents were Frederick II of Swabia (1090–1147), Duke of Swabia, and his second wife Agnes of Saarbrücken, [1] daughter of Frederick, Count of Saarbrücken.
This article lists counts palatine of Lotharingia, counts palatine of the Rhine, and electors of the Palatinate (German: Kurfürst von der Pfalz), the titles of three counts palatine who ruled some part of the Rhine region in the Kingdom of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire between 915 to 1803.
The Rhenish Palatinate included lands on both sides of the middle Rhine River between its Main and Neckar tributaries. Its capital until the 18th century was Heidelberg. The Upper Palatinate was located in northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube, and extended eastward to the Bohemian forest.
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The first hereditary Count Palatine of the Rhine was Conrad, a member of the House of Hohenstaufen and younger half-brother of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
Count Conrad Palatine of the Rhein : Family tree by comrade28 - Geneanet. Count Conrad Palatine of the Rhein. Sosa : 93,606,854 Konrad /von Staufen/, Konrad of /Staufen/ & Staufen. Born in 1135 - Hohenstaufen, Germany. Deceased 8 November 1195 - Staufen, Germany,aged 60 years old.
The king also gave his like authority to provincial rulers, to act for him in their province, and who were called Count Palatine, and the province Palatinate. Among the provinces into which Germany was divided in the 16th century, one of the most extensive, fertile and prosperous was known as the lower Palatine, or the Palatine of the Rhine.
It is unclear whether these threats were fulfilled, but, because of this edict, many departed under cover of darkness. One phase of Palatine emigration began in the spring of 1709 and an estimated 14,000 were camped in Britain in Blackheath, Greenwich Heath and other sites near London.
