Beatrix of Sicily

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Beatrix of Sicily (also Beatrix of Anjou ; * around 1252, † between November 16 and December 13, 1275 ) was a titular empress of the Latin Empire of Constantinople through her marriage to Philipp von Courtenay († 1283) .

Life

Beatrix was the second child of the French Prince Charles of Anjou († 1285) and Beatrix of Provence († 1267), who reached adulthood. So she was on her father's side a member of the French-Capetian house of Anjou . Her father had conquered the Kingdom of Sicily in 1266 . In her mother's will of June 30, 1266, she was given 10,000 Tournoiser pounds.

In the Treaty of Viterbo of May 27, 1267, Beatrix was betrothed by her father to Philipp von Courtenay , the heir to the exiled Latin emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II , whose father had undertaken to return him to the capital of the Latin Empire ( Romania ). The wedding took place on October 15, 1273 in Foggia . Her father-in-law died in January 1274 at the latest, whereupon Beatrix and her husband succeeded in imperial dignity. Documents or chronicles that they name in imperial titles have not survived or have been lost. In a document she was mentioned for the last time among the living on November 16, 1275 and for the first time as deceased on December 13 of the same year.

The only child from the marriage was Katharina von Courtenay (1274-1308).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saba Malaspina , Istoria, ed. by Giuseppe del Re in: Cronisti e scrittori sincroni Napoletani, Vol. 2 (1868), p. 291.
  2. ↑ Del Giudice, G .: Codice diplomatico del regno di Carlo I. e II. D'Angiò, Vol. 1 (1863), No. L, pp. 154-165.
  3. ↑ Berger, É .: Layettes du trésor des chartes, Vol. 4 (1902), No. 5284, pp. 220-224; Del Giudice, G .: Codice diplomatico del regno di Carlo I. e II. D'Angiò, Vol. 2/1 (1869), No. IV, pp. 30-44.
  4. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . First Section AG. Hermann Brockhaus, Leipzig 1867, p. 263 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Minieri Riccio, C .: Genealogia di Carlo I. di Angiò: prima generazione, (1857), p. 115, note 254.
  6. ↑ The Angevin archive in Naples was largely destroyed during the uprising against the German occupation in September 1943 before the text of its documents could be edited.
  7. ^ Minieri Riccio, C .: Genealogia di Carlo I. di Angiò: prima generazione, (1857), p. 116, note 257.
personal data
SURNAME Beatrix of Sicily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beatrix of Anjou; Béatrice d'Anjou (French); Beatrice d'Angiò (Italian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latin titular empress
DATE OF BIRTH around 1252
DATE OF DEATH between November 16, 1275 and December 13, 1275