Conrad II elected King of Germany
1024
A modest Salian count from the Middle Rhine was raised to the throne by German magnates at Kamba. A rough, shrewd soldier rather than a scholar, he would consolidate imperial rights, add Burgundy to the empire, and found a dynasty that would rule the German lands for a full century.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.