CONRADIN, or CONRAD junior, son of Con-
rad IV. was acknowledged emperor by the Gibbe-
lines, who received him in triumph at Rome: but
Pope Alexander IV. had published a crusade against
this orphan; and Urban VII. his successor, gave the
empire to Charles of Anjou, brother to Louis IX.
king of France; and the unfortunate youth, though
powerfully supported even by the Turks, lost a battle,
in which he was taken prisoner, and was beheaded, by
order of his base opponent, publicly at Naples in 1229,
in the 18th year of his age. In him ended the race of
the dukes of Suabia, which had produced several kings
and emperors.