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| CATEGORIES ABOUT CONRAD IV OF GERMANY | |
| 1228 births | |
| 1254 deaths | |
| people from apulia | |
| german kings | |
| kings of sicily | |
| kings of burgundy | |
| kings of jerusalem | |
| dukes of swabia | |
| hohenstaufen dynasty | |
| deaths from malaria | |
| SHOPPER'S DELIGHT | |
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Frederick II deposed his eldest son, Conrad's older brother Henry , and in his stead in 1237 had Conrad elected King Of The Romans , meaning King of Germany and presumed future Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire , with Archbishop Siegfried II of Mainz acting as German Regent until 1242 , when Frederick chose Henry Raspe , Landgrave of Thuringia , and Wenceslaus I of Bohemia , to assume this function. However, when Pope Innocent IV imposed a papal ban on Frederick in 1245, Henry Raspe supported the pope who in turn arranged to have Raspe elected as counter-king of Germany on 22 May 1246 . Raspe defeated Conrad in the battle of Nidda in August 1246 , but died several months later. Also in 1246, Conrad married Elisabeth of Bavaria, a daughter of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke Of Bavaria . They had a son, Conradin , in 1252. When Frederick II died in 1250, he passed Sicily and Germany to Conrad, but the struggle with the pope continued. Conrad invaded Italy in 1251 , but not with enough success to subdue the pope's supporters, and the pope in turn offered Sicily to Edmund Crouchback , son of Henry III Of England ( 1253 ). Conrad was Excommunicated in 1254 , but died of a fever in the same year, and it was left to his infant son Conradin , born in 1252 and beheaded at age 16 in 1268, to continue the struggle with the Papacy .
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