Conrad I of Sanneck

– before 1255), Lord of Žovnek (Sanneck, in German), was a free noble in the March of Savinja in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now Slovenia.

He was born to the free noble (roughly equivalent to a baron) Gebhard II of Sanneck.

He flourished between 1220 and 1241, when his name is present in various sources,[1] showing that he was the owner of large allods in the Savinja Valley, then part of the March of Carniola.

[3] It was Conrad who first used the traditional coat-of-arms of the House of Sanneck, two red stripes on a silver shield.

[4] Conrad was mentioned by the minnesanger Ulrich von Liechtenstein in his Frauendienst as a participant of the tournament in Friesach in Carinthia.