Beatrice of Bar [57314] ¹²⁷

  General Notes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_Bar

  Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded: Marchioness of Tuscany, 1053. was the Marchioness of Tuscany from 1053 to her death as the wife of Boniface III of Tuscany .

Beatrice married Boniface III Margrave of Tuscany [57315] [MRIN: 13758], son of Tedald of Canossa Count of Brescia [63668] and Willa [57321]. (Boniface III Margrave of Tuscany [57315] was born about 985 and died on 6 May 1052.). The cause of his death was assassination.

Beatrice next married Godfrey II (III)The Bearded of Lorraine Duke of Lorraine [4878] [MRIN: 13757], son of Gothelo (Gozelo) I the Great Duke of Lorraine [63278] and Junca (Urracca) Princess of Italy [11415], in 1053. (Godfrey II (III)The Bearded of Lorraine Duke of Lorraine [4878] was born about 997 and died in 1069.)

  Marriage Notes:

The elder Beatrice, in order to protect her children's inheritance, married Godfrey the Bearded , a cousin who had been Duke of Upper Lorraine before rebelling against the Emperor Henry III . The two were married in 1053 or 1054 in the church of San Pietro at Mantua by Pope Leo IX himself as he returned from a trip to Germany.

the same time, Matilda was betrothed to Godfrey the Hunchback , a son of Godfrey the Bearded by a previous marriage and thus her stepbrother.