Conrad of Germany II, Holy Roman Emperor

  General Notes:

The son of a mid-level nobleman in Franconia, Count Henry of Speyer and Adelaide of Alsace, he inherited the titles of count of Speyer and of Worms as an infant when Henry died at age twenty. As he matured he came to be well known beyond his power base in Worms and Speyer, so when the Saxon line died off and the elected monarchy for the German realm stood vacant, he was elected King in 1024 at the respectably old age of thirty-four years and crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on March 26, 1027, becoming the first of four kings and emperors of the Salian Dynasty.

Conrad married Gisela of Swabia, daughter of Duke Herman of Swabia II and Gerberga of Burgundy, circa 1016. (Gisela of Swabia was born circa 990 and died on 14 Feb 1043 in Goslar, , NS, DEU.)