General Notes

Count of Ohningen, Duke of Swabia

Also Duke of Brandenburg, Count of Ulfgau.

The present picture seems to be that Kuno (which name is a short form variant of 'Konrad') is to be identified with Konrad (b.925/30 d.20/8/997) duke of Swabia father of Hermann II. The problem is Richlind. The charter in which she is mentioned is a proven fabrication and that her mention in the GW an invention. Konrad of Swabia had a proven wife, Judith. In the last article by Hlawitschka, he presents a very clever and plausible reconstruction of Judith's ancestry. If he is correct then she was indeed related to the emperor Otto I. According to the reconstruction Judith would be Otto's 1st cousin twice removed. On her mother's side she would be the great granddaughter of one of Otto's paternal uncles (i.e. a brother of king Henry the Fowler). The point seems to be that the GW etc in assigning an alleged daughter of Otto as the wife of Kuno von Oehningen were indicating that Kuno's wife had blood ties with the royal dynasty ('koenigsnahe') and in this these sources were correct. What was mistaken was the name and precise relationship to the dynasty. In any event if Kuno is identical with duke Konrad, he would have had something that even the current Saxon dynasty did not, koenigsnahe with the Carolingians (his mother was one such). Richard Borthwick -- rgbor@CYLLENE.UWA.EDU.AU

Traditional genealogies have him as the son of Udo I (d.949), Count in the Wetterau, son of Gebhard (d.910), Count in the Wetterau, who was brother of Eberhard (d.902/3), Count in the Niederlandgau (q.v.), but the current lineage is different.

# Name: Konrad I Konradiner, Herzog von SCHWABEN
# Given Name: Konrad I Konradiner, Herzog von
# Surname: SCHWABEN
# Name: Cuno I, Count d' OEHNINGEN
# Given Name: Cuno I, Count d'
# Surname: OEHNINGEN
# Name: Konrad II, Herzog von SCHWABEN
# Given Name: Konrad II, Herzog von
# Surname: SCHWABEN
# Name: Conrad II, Duke SWABIA
# Given Name: Conrad II, Duke
# Surname: SWABIA
# Name: Konrad I KONRADINER
# Given Name: Konrad I
# Surname: KONRADINER
# Name: Konrad, Duke of SWABIA
# Given Name: Konrad, Duke of
# Surname: SWABIA 1 2
# Name: Conrad I
# Given Name: Conrad I
# Surname:
# Name: Kuno I von Öhningen, Count of RHEINFELDEN
# Given Name: Kuno I von Öhningen, Count of
# Surname: RHEINFELDEN
# Sex: M
# Birth: Bet 940-945 in Öhningen, Konstanz, Baden, Germany
# Death: 20 Aug 997 1 2 3 4
# Event: Title 949
# Event: Title 982
# Event: Title 982 - 20 August 997 4
# Event: Title
# Change Date: 17 Dec 2001 at 16:55