Conrad I "the Younger" of Germany (881-23 December 918) was King of East Francia from 10 November 911 to 23 December 918, succeeding Louis the Child and preceding Henry the Fowler.
Biography[]
Conrad was the son of Conrad of Thuringia, and he became Duke of Franconia in 906, when his father was killed in battle with Henry of Franconia at Fritzlar. After the death of Louis the Child, Conrad was elected King of East Francia on 10 November 911, as he was a maternal relative of the late king. Reginar of Lower Lorraine refused to give Conrad his loyalty, instead joining West Francia, and Conrad had to fight against rebellions by Henry the Fowler of Saxony and Arnulf of Bavaria during his seven-year reign. In 917, he executed Bishop Solomon III of Constance after he failed in a rebellion against Conrad, but his campaigns against Charles the Simple to regain the Lotharingian city of Aachen were failures, and he also had to worry about the rising power of regional dukes and the invasions of the Magyars. He died at Weilburg Castle in 918 of wounds sustained from a battle with Arnulf's forces. Henry the Fowler succeeded him as King of East Francia.