KONRADINER Mathilde

Female Abt 0988 - Abt 1032  (44 years)

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  • Name KONRADINER Mathilde 
    Birth Abt 0988  Heiliges Römisches Reich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death Abt 20 Jul 1032  Worms, Heiliges Römisches Reich Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Mathilde von Schwaben, daughter of Hermann II, Duke of Swabia, and his wife Gerberga of Burgundy, married,

      (ca. 1002) Konrad, son of Otto duke of Carinthia,
      (ca. 1016) Frederic of Upper Lotharingia, son of Thierry I and Richilde
      Esiko, Graf in Schwabengau, son of Adalbert von Ballenstedt. This third marriage is uncertain[1].
      She died on 20 July 1031 or 1032 and was buried at Worms[2].

      Her first two marriages were contested due to consanguinity issues. [3]

      About 1001/02 Matilda married Conrad of Carinthia, son of Duke Otto I, a member of the Salian dynasty. Conrad supported her father's bid for the German throne in 1002. f[4]

      Conrad outlived his elder brothers, In 1002, his father Otto of Worms was candidate in the royal German election but renounced in favor of the Ottonian Duke Henry IV of Bavaria, the son of late Duke Henry the Wrangler. In that year or thereabouts, Conrad married Matilda, daughter of Henry's rival, the Conradine duke Herman II of Swabia.[5]

      Mathilde had the following children by her first marriage:

      Konrad II, duke of Carinthia
      Bruno, bishop of Würzburg
      (uncertain) a daughter, married Hezzelin Graf im Zülpichgau[6].
      About 1012/13, Matilda had married her second husband, Count Frederick of Bar, son of Duke Theodoric I of Upper Lorraine. Frederick succeeded his father in 1019; he is usually said to have died c. 1026, although it is possible that he lived until 1033.[7]

      Mathilde had the following children by her second marriage:

      Frederic III Duke of Upper Lotharingia
      Sophie, married Louis de Mousson
      Beatrix, married Boniface of Tuscany, and secondly Godefroi "le Barbu" de Verdun
      (uncertain) Petronilla[8].
      She was not the mother of Doda. Rassinot-1 10:39, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

      Research Notes
      Several sources have her listed as being born 988 or 989 they also have her giving birth in 990 a physical impossibility , getting married in 1002 and having another child in 1005. So let's do some fast math. Married 1002 - 988 she is 14. Ok very young but I have seen royals marry young. Birth in 1005 she is 17 and that is doable. But the one for 990 which is the one most often documented just makes no sense. So either she was born earlier than 988 or Konrad II was born later after 1002 maybe 1004? Working on finding additional sources to work this timing issue out.

      Evidently, the link on the English version of Wikipedia that takes you to the article that is supposed to be her son, is actually taking you to a different Conrad. John Atkinson and I traded emails and he provided the following:

      The problem is there is confusion over two men named Conrad in the next generation. Conrad II who became Holy Roman Emperor, was born circa 990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor but he was the son of Heinrich. Conrad II Duke of Carinthia, the son of Conrad I and Mathilde, who was first cousin to Conrad II HRE, was born circa 1003. See the German Wikipedia article https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_II._(K%C3%A4rnten)

      They seem to be often confused because they both died in 1039, even the English Wikipedia article gets the dates confused, perhaps because the source it is using is for the Emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_II,_Duke_of_Carinthia

      This source gives Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia, a birth date of about 1007 https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd137058624.html#ndbcontent which might fit better with Mathilde’s year of birth.

      Because the marriage is purported to have taken place in 1002 and Konrad is the listed heir, and the second son is listed as born in 1005, I am going to go with his birth as being in 1003. Hopefully this clears this up. She would have been about 15 at the time which is possible.

      Sources
      ↑ Stolberg-Wernigerode, Otto zu: Neue deutsche Biographie, Bd.: 16, Maly - Melanchthon, Berlin, 1990
      ↑ Charles Cawley, Fondation for Medieval Genealogy, Swabia Chap. 3 Dukes of Swabia (Konradiner) http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SWABIA.htm#Mathildedied1031 accessed Nov 2019
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Swabia
      ↑ E. Boshoff, Die Salier (Stuttgart, 2008) p23
      ↑ Stefan Weinfurter, The Salian Century: Main Currents in an Age of Transition, 46.
      ↑ FMG/Cawley, Franconia, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA.htm#KonradKartenCarinthiadied1011
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Swabia
      ↑ FMG/Cawley, Lotharingia, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIA.htm#FredericIIdied1026
      This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.

      WikiTree profile Swabia-70 created through the import of Mears Family Tree as Oct 200.ged on Dec 24, 2011 by David Mears.
      Ancestry Family Trees: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/11448774/family
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_I,_Duke_of_Carinthia
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Swabia
    Person ID I58896  Freeman-Smith
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 

    Father SCHWABEN Hermann,   b. Abt 0950, Schwaben, Bavaria Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1003, Strasbourg Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother BURGUNDEN Gergerga,   b. Abt 0965, Provence, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 07 Jul 1019 (Age 54 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 0988 
    Family ID F26201  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family LORRAINE Frederick,   b. Abt 0995   d. Abt 18 May 1026 (Age 31 years) 
    Marriage 1015 
    Children 
     1. BAR Sophia,   b. Abt 1019, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1092, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F26202  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 27 Jan 2026 


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