Konrad von Öhningen Graf von Rheingau

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~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 167:20, Konrad, died 997, Count in the Rheingau, Duke of Swabia, was the father of Hermann II, Duke of Swabia and Alsace who married Gerberga de Bourgogne. ¹⁶⁰

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Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Konrad Duke of Swabia Konrad von Öhningen was the son of Konrad Graf im Rheingau und in der Ortenau and his wife. He succeeded in 983 as Konrad I duke of Swabia. He married Richlind, who may be the daughter of Emperor Otto I, King of Germany and his second wife Adelais of Burgundy. "'Otto…imperator augustus' granted property by the spurious charter dated 13 Jan 965 to the church of Öhningen, built according to the document by "domnus Chono comes de Oningen" with the consent of "uxoris sui Richlinde, filiorumque eius Eggeberti, Luipoldi, Chononis, Lutoldi" [D O I 445, p. 601]. The Historia Welforum names "filia Ottonis magnis imperatoris…Richlint" as wife of "Couno comes" [Historia Welforum Weingartensis 6, MGH SS XXI, p. 460]. The Annales Einsidlenses record the death in 997 of "Chuonradus dux" and the succession of "Herimannus filius eius in ducatum" [Annales Einsidlenses 997, MGH SS III, p. 144]. The necrology of St Gall records the death "XIII Kal Sep" of "Chuonradi ducis Alamannorum" [Libri Anniversariorum et Necrologium Monasterii Sancti Galli, Konstanz Necrologies, p. 462].

Konrad married Richlind von Saxony, daughter of Otto "the Great" of Saxony Holy Roman Emperor and Adélaide de Bourgogne. (Richlind von Saxony died after 1 Nov 1007 in Bavaria .)