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3 unusual facts about Conrad III of Dhaun


Conrad III of Dhaun

Mainz had to accept almost all of its possession in Upper and Lower Hesse as Hessian fiefs, only Fritzlar, Naumburg, Amöneburg and Neustadt remained as allodial Mainzer possessions in the area.

An army of 600 cavalry and additional infantry led by Count Gottfried of Leiningen (a younger relative of the cathedral dean of the same name), attacked northern Hesse from Fritzlar, an exclave of Mainz, and devastated the area around Gudensberg, Felsberg and Melsungen.

His grave monument was probably sculpted by Madern Gerthener, whom Conrad knew from his period as paster as St. Bartholomew.



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