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Message:: [QUOTE="RAGNAROK, post: 2976486, member: 84566"]King CONRAD ´The Pacific´ (11 July 937 – 19 October 993), french denier. Obverse: + CONRADVS / Cross.Reverse: + LVGDVNVS / Cross on a church roof.Coin: 22 mm - 1,32 g. [ATTACH=full]731444[/ATTACH] House: Elder House of Welf.Father: Rudolph II of Burgundy / Mother: Bertha of Swabia.Religion: Roman Catholic.Born: c. 925 / Died: 19 October 993.Burial: Vienne.King of Burgundy and Arles (future ´The Great Kingdom of Provence´). Preceded by Rudolph II. Succeeded by Rudolph III. He was the son of King Rudolph II, the first ruler over the united territories of Upper and Lower Burgundy since 933, and his consort Bertha, a daughter of Duke Burchard II of Swabia. Some sources call him Conrad III, since he was the third Conrad in his family: his great-grandfather was Duke Conrad II, whose father was Count Conrad I. [ATTACH=full]731442[/ATTACH] According the chronicler Ekkehard IV, in a story that is probably apocryphal, when Conrad learned that both the Magyars and the Saracens of Fraxinetum were marching against him, he sent envoys to both armies warning them of the other. The envoys offered Burgundian aid to each invader against the other and then informed them of the other's whereabouts. When the Magyars and Saracens met, the Burgundians held back and only attacked when the opposing forces were spent. In this way, both invading armies were destroyed and the captives sold into slavery... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> King Conrad, ´The Pacific´... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> He married in 964 with Mathilde (934 - 980), the daughter of Louis IV of ´Outremer´ and the sister of Lothaire, who brings him the dowry of Lyon. Conrad united the kingdom of Arles with that of Burgundy, forming ´The Great Kingdom of Provence´... Oh là là! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]731441[/ATTACH] BTW... Aye, Lugdunum is a latinization of the Gaulish *Lugudunon, meaning "Fortress (or hill) of (the god) Lugus"... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <a href="http://www.imbas.org/articles/lugus.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.imbas.org/articles/lugus.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.imbas.org/articles/lugus.html</a> [ATTACH=full]731450[/ATTACH] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ---Sources & Info: WIKI. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bourchard, Constance Brittain (1999). "Burgundy and Provence, 879–1032". In Reuter, Timothy; McKitterick, Rosamond. The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, c.900-c.1024. Cambridge University Press. Demotz F., La Bourgogne, dernier des royaumes carolingiens (855-1056): roi, pouvoirs et élites autour du Léman, Lausanne, 2008. Cope, Christopher (1987). Phoenix Frustrated: The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy. Constable. Fichtenau, Heinrich (1991). Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders. Translated by Geary, Patrick J. University of Chicago Press. Paravy P. (dir.), Des Burgondes au royaume de Bourgogne (V-Xe siècle), journées d'étude des 26-27 octobre 2001, Grenoble, 2002.[/QUOTE]

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