Beatrice of Savoy, Marchioness of Saluzzo

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Beatrice of Savoy
Marguerite of Burgundy

Beatrice of Savoy (before 4 March 1223 – 10 May before 1259) was Marchioness of Saluzzo by marriage to

Manfred III, Marquess of Saluzzo, and Queen of Sicily by marriage to Manfred, King of Sicily between 1258 and 1259. She was regent of Saluzzo during the minority of her son in 1244.[1]

Life

She was a daughter of

Marguerite of Burgundy.[2][page needed] She was a member of the House of Savoy
by birth and by her first marriage she was Marchioness consort of Saluzzo.

Beatrice was the elder of two daughters; her younger sister Margaret was married to

Boniface II, Marquess of Montferrat. After the death of their mother, their father married Cecile of Baux and had further children including Boniface, Count of Savoy and a younger Beatrice
.

Beatrice was first betrothed not long after her birth on 4 March 1223 to

Manfred III, Marquess of Saluzzo. However, the contract was broken off but was then renewed on 2 October 1227; a contract signed on that date refers to the dowry of Beatrice.[3]
The couple were married in March 1233. They were married for eleven years until Manfred's death in 1244, leaving Beatrice with two children and pregnant with twins. They had the following children:

  1. Alice (c. 1236 – before 12 Jul 1311), married Edmund de Lacy, Baron of Pontefract and had issue
  2. Thomas
    (1239–1296), succeeded Manfred as Marquess
  3. Agnes (1245 – after 4 August 1265), married John, son of Eustace de Vesci, no issue
  4. Margaret (born 1245), born posthumously, twin of Agnes

When her spouse died in 1244, Beatrice became the regent of Saluzzo during the minority of her son; however, she was forced to give up the regency to Boniface II, Marquis of Montferrat.[4] Only two years after Manfred's death on 8 May 1246, Beatrice was betrothed a second time to a

Elizabeth of Aragon
.

In a testament from Beatrice's father dated 24 May 1253, the succession rights of Beatrice were bypassed in favor of her younger half-brother; the testament fails to mention Beatrice's second husband, possibly indicating a breakdown in the marriage. Beatrice died before 1259. Her husband became

King of Sicily in 1258 and went on to marry Helena Angelina Doukaina
and father children with her.

References

  1. ^ (Raffaello Menochio, Le Memorie storiche della città di Carmagnola, Torino, 1890).
  2. ISBN 0691052166
    .
  3. ^ State Archives, volume 25, page 13, fascicule 4.
  4. ^ (Raffaello Menochio, Le Memorie storiche della città di Carmagnola, Torino, 1890).
  5. ^ Wurstenberger (1858), Vol. IV, 194, p. 106.
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