Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor

Conrad II (c. 990 – 4 June 1039) was the son of Count Henry of Speyer and Adelheid of Alsace. He was elected king in 1024. He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 26 March 1027. He was the first emperor of the Salian Dynasty.

During his reign, he proved that the German monarchy had become strong enough that it no longer depended on contracts between king and dukes alone.

Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor Media

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  Speyer Cathedral, consecrated in 1061

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  Following his expedition into Italy in early 1026, Conrad II was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as the King of the Lombards.

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  The Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire. Conrad was crowned as Emperor on 26 March 1027, by Pope John XIX.

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  Emperor Conrad disapproved of Duke Adalbero's increasingly indiscreet and quasi-independent rule of his estates Carinthia and Verona, that compromised the stability at the crossroads of the empire

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  The Duchy of Poland at its greatest extent under Bolesław I and his son Mieszko II Lambert

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  Stephen as depicted on the coronation pall

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  Conrad II, 12th-century stained glass window, Strasbourg Cathedral

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  Conrad II's tomb in the Speyer Cathedral