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Conrad Grebel ( c. 1498 – 1526 ), son of a prominent Swiss merchant and councilman, was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement and is often called the " Father of Anabaptists ".
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* January 21 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother on Neustadt-Gasse, Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
There are 9 primary residence communities for the University which include ; Ron Eydt Village ( REV ), Village 1 ( V1 ), University of Waterloo Place ( UWP ), MacKenzie King Village ( MKV ), Columbia Lake Village ( CLV ), St Jerome's University ( SJU ), St Paul's University ( STP ), Renison University College ( REN ), and Conrad Grebel College.
St Jerome's, St Paul's and Renison have religious associations that are not mandatory to follow for residents while Conrad Grebel is a little more faith-driven.
Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Grüningen in the Canton of Zurich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea ( Fries ) Grebel, the second of six children.
Conrad Grebel is thought to have studied for six years at the Carolina, the Latin school of the Grossmünster Church in Zürich.
Conrad Grebel spent about six years in three universities, but without finishing his education or receiving a degree.
Conrad Grebel and Wolfgang Ulimann spent several months preaching with much success in the area of St. Gall.
The extant works of Conrad Grebel consist of 69 letters written by him from September 1517 to July 1525, three poems, a petition to the Zürich council, and portions of a pamphlet written by him against infant baptism, as quoted by Zwingli in his counterarguments.
The beliefs of Conrad Grebel and the Swiss Brethren have left an impression on the life and thought of Amish, Baptist, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptist, and Mennonite churches, as well as numerous pietistic and free church movements.
With Petr Chelčický ( 1390 – 1460 ) of Bohemia, Conrad Grebel is considered one of the first nonresistant Christians of the Reformation.
His grandson, also named Conrad, was the city's treasurer in 1624, and a later descendant also named Conrad Grebel was burgomaster in 1669.
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He was not, however, the first important German lutenist, because contemporaries credited Conrad Paumann ( c. 1410 – 1473 ) with the invention of German lute tablature.
The Basilica of Aquileia ( northern Italy ) contains an apse fresco ( c. 1031 ) showing emperor Conrad II, his wife Gisela of Swabia and Patriarch Poppone of Aquileia.
Gisela of Burgundy ( c. 975 – July 21, 1006 ) was the daughter of Conrad the Peaceful, King of Burgundy and Adelaide of Bellay, Conrad's second wife whom he probably married for love, as he had already produced an heir ( Rudolph III ) by his first, more dynastic, marriage and was thus free to wed as he pleased.
Nothing further is known about Fust save that, on October 30 ( c. 1471 ), Peter Schöffer, Johann Fust ( son ), and Schöffer's presumed partner Conrad Henlif ( variantly, Henekes or Henckis ) instituted an annual mass in the abbey-church of St. Victor of Paris, where Fust was buried.
Conrad I (; c. 890 – 23 December 918 ), called the Younger, was Duke of Franconia from 906 and King of Germany from 911 to 918, the only king of the Conradine ( or Franconian ) dynasty.
Jörg vom Haus Jacob ( Georg Cajacob, or George of the House of Jacob ), commonly known as George Blaurock ( c. 1491 – September 6, 1529 ), with Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz, was co-founder of the Swiss Brethren in Zürich, and thereby one of the founders of Anabaptism.
Eberhard III ( c. 885 – 939 ) was a member of the Conradine dynasty, who became duke of Franconia following the death of his older brother, King Conrad I ( or Konrad ), in December 918.
Conrad Paumann ( c. 1410 – January 24, 1473 ) was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the early Renaissance.
Meinhard's wife from 1258 was Elisabeth of Bavaria ( c. 1227 – 73 ), the daughter of Duke Otto II and widow of King Conrad IV, King of the Romans.
Conrad Grebel University College was named after Conrad Grebel ( c. 1498 – 1526 ), a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement who is called the " Father of Anabaptists ".
Bruno of Würzburg ( c. 1005 – 27 May 1045 ), also known as Bruno of Carinthia, was imperial chancellor of Italy from 1027 to 1034 for Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor, to whom he was related, and from 1034 until his death prince-bishop of Würzburg.
He married Matilde of Swabia ( c. 995 – 1031 ), daughter of Herman II, Duke of Swabia, and sister-in-law of Conrad.
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