Beatrice of Savoy

Events

Date of Birth: before 4 March 1223.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: 10 May, before 1259.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Amadeus IV, count of Savoy.

This relationship is given by Walter, by Demotz, and by Cox.

Mother: Marguerite of Burgundy.

There is some disagreement in secondary sources about whether Beatrice’s mother was Marguerite of Burgundy or her niece, Anna, daughter of the dauphin André of Vienne (as given by Walter). The evidence seems strongly to favour Marguerite: the 1228 will of Marguerite’s mother (abstracted in the Regeste Dauphinois t. 2, nos. 6973 and 6975) makes it clear that Marguerite was married to Amadeus IV at that time, and the Regesto dei Marchese di Saluzzo (no. 249, p. 73, cited by Cawley) gives a 1223 contract regarding the marriage of Beatrice and Manfredo of Saluzzo. If Anna in fact married Amadeus (which is doubtful), it was presumably after Amadeus’s marriage to Marguerite.

Spouse: Manfredo III, marquis of Saluzzo.

This relationship is given by Walter, by Demotz, and by Cox.

Spouse: Manfredo, king of Sicily.

This relationship is given by Walter, by Demotz, and by Cox.

Children (by her first husband):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Alasia (about 1236 - before 12 July 1311) married Edmund de Lacy, earl of Lincoln.

Tommaso I (died 3 December 1296), marquis of Saluzzo.

Agnese (1245 - after 4 August 1265) married John de Vescy.

Children (by her second husband):

Constanza (1249 - 1302) married Pedro III “el Grande”, king of Aragon, (later Pietro, king of Sicily).

Evidence

from the Regesto dei Marchese di Saluzzo (p. 73):

249 -- 1223, III, 4. In territorio Carmagnolio ubi dicitur in Runco. Pax facta fuit inter d. Alaxiam comitissam Saluciarum et d. Manfredum [III] marchionem Saluciarum eius nepotem ex una et d. Thomam comitem Maurianæ ex altera, in qua inter cetera actum est quod dictus d. comes infra XVIII dies post festum paschatis proxime venturum dabit in uxorem dicto d. Mainfredo neptem suam nomine Beatrix cum dote mille marcharum argenti, pro qua dote dictus d. comes remittet in bayliam dictæ d. Alaxiæ castrum Burgi de Sancto Dalmacio.

References

Cawley, Charles. “BEATRIX de Savoie” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Chevalier, Ulysse. Regeste Dauphinois (Valence, 1912-1926).

Cox, Eugene L. The Eagles of Savoy: The House of Savoy in Thirteenth Century Europe. (Princeton University Press, 1974).

Demotz, B. Savoyen genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Talloe, Amando. Regesto dei Marchese di Saluzzo (1091-1340) (Pinerolo, 1906).

Walter, Ingebord. “Beatrice di Savoia, regina di Sicilia” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 7 (1970).