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Beatrix von Hohenstaufen de Bourgogne

(1192 - Est 6 May 1231)

Beatrix was born in 1192, the younger daughter of Otto II von Hohenstaufen, Count Palatine of Burgundy, a son of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa, and Marguerite de Blois. From the time of her father's assassination at Besançon in 1200, she was his next-in-line to the county of Burgundy, eventually succeeding her elder sister Johanna after her death in 1205.

On 21 June 1208 she married Otto I, duke of Andechs and Meran, son of Berthold VI von Andechs, duke of Meran and Dalmatia, and Agnes von Nieder-Lausitz. They had six children of whom four daughters, Adelheid, Elisabeth, Margarethe and Beatrix, would have progeny. Her son Otto and daughter Adelheid who would both come to succeed her after her death about 6 May 1231.

Source: Leo van de Pas

Events

Birth1192
Marriage21 Jun 1208Duke Otto I of Meran, Count Palatine of Bourgogne
DeathEst 6 May 1231

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