CONRAD OF THÜRINGIA

CONRAD OF THÜRINGIA
   a proud, quick, fiery-tempered magnate, seized the archbishop of Mainz once, swung him round, and threatened to cut him in two; stormed, plundered, and set fire to an imperial free town for an affront offered him; but admonished of his sins became penitent, and reconciled himself by monastic vow to the Pope and mankind about 1234.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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