Beatrice of Rethel
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Beatrice of Rethel (1130/35Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 30 March 1185) was a French noblewoman and Queen of Sicily as the third wife of Roger II.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Family
Beatrice was born in 1130 or 1135, the eldest daughter and one of the nine children of Guitier of Rethel and Beatrix of Namur.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Her father was Count of Rethel from 1158 to 1171.
Marriage, issue and widowhood
In 1151, Beatrice married Roger II of Sicily.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". She was queen for three years, until Roger's death on 26 February 1154.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Beatrice was a little over three weeks pregnant at the time of his death, and their only child, Constance, was born the following November.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Beatrice survived her husband by thirty-one years but there is no record of her having married again. Her daughter Constance was confined to a monastery as a nun since childhood due a prophecy that "her marriage would destroy the kingdom". Beatrice lived long enough to see her betrothed in 1184. Constance became queen of Sicily in 1194.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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