Beatrix von Schwaben (the younger one)

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Beatrix (May / June 1205 - November 5, 1235 in Toro ) was Queen of Castile and León .

She was a daughter of the Roman-German King Philip of Swabia , consequently the granddaughter of the Staufer Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa . Her mother was the Byzantine Emperor's daughter Irene of Byzantium . She had an older sister who was also called Beatrix . For this reason she is called Beatrix the Younger .

After the death of her parents in 1208, she came to the Braunschweig court to live with her sister of the same name, who had been engaged to Emperor Otto IV since 1209 and later married for a short time. After Otto's death (1218) her cousin, the Roman King (1220 Emperor) Friedrich II , brought her to his court, mostly Haguenau in Alsace. Friedrich brokered the engagement with King Ferdinand II of Castile, who in 1230 after the death of his father King Ferdinand III. of Castile and León .

On November 30, 1219, at the age of fourteen, she married Ferdinand, six years her senior , in Burgos . Beatrix was called Elisabeth and Isabella in Spain . Ten children resulted from his marriage to Ferdinand:

Tomb of Beatrix in the Capilla Real in Seville Cathedral
  • Alfonso X. (1221-1284)
  • Fadrique of Castile (1223–1277)
  • Ferdinand (1225-1243 / 48)
  • Eleanor (1227–?)
  • Berenguela (1228–1288 / 89)
  • Heinrich (1230–1304)
  • Philip (1231-1274)
  • Sancho (1233-1261)
  • Juan Manuel (1234-1283)
  • Maria (1235)

Her son Alfonso X , King of Castile and León from 1252 as successor to his father, was elected in Germany in the double election of 1256/57 with an equal number of votes as the opposing king of Richard of Cornwall . Even though Alfons, unlike his rival, never entered Germany and was not crowned, he insisted on his role as German king and was only deposed in 1273 by the unanimous election of Rudolf I of Habsburg , which ended the interregnum . This episode sounds less bizarre when you realize that Alfons was half a Staufer through his mother and that his maternal grandfather Philipp von Schwaben was also an anti-German king.

Beatrix was first buried in the monastery of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos. She was later transferred to Seville , where her husband, who was canonized in 1671, was buried in the cathedral . Your representative tomb is there in the Capilla Real .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Hansmartin Decker-Hauff : The Staufer House. In: Württembergisches Landesmuseum (Hrsg.): The time of the Staufer. History - art - culture. Stuttgart 1977, Volume III, p. 361 f
  2. ↑ a b Hans-Wolfgang Bächle : The legacy of the Hohenstaufen. Schwäbisch Gmünd 2008, pp. 120–129
  3. ^ Peter Koblank: Staufer graves - plants . on stauferstelen.net. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Beatrix von Schwaben (the younger one)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isabella of Castile and León, Elizabeth of Castile and León
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Castile and León
DATE OF BIRTH around May 1205
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1235
Place of death Toro (Spain)