General Notes

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1 NAME Conrad I (of Arles) /of Burgundy/

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() 2 GIVN Conrad I (of Arles)

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() 2 SURN of Burgundy

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() 2 NSFX King of Burgundy

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He succeeded his father as king of a reunited Burgundy in 937.  In that year
the Hungarians made their most destructive attack on Burgundy.  The Saracens
had been ravaging the Rhone valley for several years.  In his book "The Lost
Kingdom of Burgundy", Christopher Cope relates the following event: "Conrad of
Burgundy was named 'the peaceful' but in 954 he gained victory over theSaracens
and Magyars in a coup which may be unique in military history.  When he learnt
that the forces of both Magyars and Saracens were on the warpath, he sent
envoys to tell the Magyars that the Saracens lay in wait for them and that if
they would join forces with the Burgundians they would together destroy the
Saracens.  He then warned the Saracens of the Magyars' approach and similiary
deceived, they engaged each other in battle just as the Burgundian army, with a
perfect sense of timing, appeared on the field, and Conrad continued to tell
each side that he would shortly come to its assistance.  When he judged that
the two hostile forces had sufficiently weakened each other, the Burgundians
were launched against them and both were brilliantly destroyed".  The next
year, 955, the Emperor Otto I finally checked the Magyars and later in Conrad's
long reign, in 972, the Saracens were finally driven from Provence by the
Clunac abbott, Majolus.  This success inagurated an age of peace in Burgundy
which brought prosperity and a remarkable outburst of cultural activity.  Upon
his death in 993 Conrad was succeeded as king by his son, Rudolph III.
Gradually Burgundy became caught in the vice between the French on the west and
the Germans on the east and became a vassal state of the Ottonian Emporers of
Germany.