He died very young after a fall from his horse during a hunt and was buried in Trebnitz, where his sister Gertrude was the Abbess.

Prince Konrad was the hero of the first alleged ethnic conflict between the Polish and Germans in Silesia.

In this dispute, the young Konrad had the support of the Polish, and Henry II gained the favour of the Germans.

As a result, both forces clashed in the Battle of Studnica near Opole in 1213, the Germans under the leadership of Henry II defeated the Polish troops of Konrad.

The Silesian writer Jan Mikołaj Jaroń created a 1920 drama with the title Konrad the Curly.