Countess Beatrice De SAVOY

   Another name for Beatrice was SAVOY Countess.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ8-F6. User ID: 9454875.

   General Notes:

Countess of SAVOY.

BOOKS
A History of The Plantagenets, Vol II, The Magnificent Century, Thomas B Costain 1951, Doubleday & Co, p159:
"The first business to claim his serious attention was getting Richard and Sanchia married.As usual, he burbled with enthusiasm over the arrangements, declaring it must be made an occasion to remember. Beatrice of Provence, mother of the bride, came to England to see her third daughter wedded, but Raimund Berenger was detained by state difficulties which his wife solved by getting a loan from Henry of four thousand amrks. The cost of the wedding was chiefly defrayed by a levy imposed on the Jews of the country. It was an arbitrary proceeding, each of them receiving noticeof the size of the donation required...An idea of the extravagance of the festivities may be gleaned from the fact that thirty thousand dishes were prepared for the wedding dinner alone."
p171: "The other children seem to have been lodgedin the family quarters already described, where each of them had servants of his own. They arrived with great regularity. Of those who survived infancy,...Beatrice was born on June 25, 1242, and named after her maternal grandmother..."

Political History of England 1216-1377, T F Tout, 1905, AMS Press, Vol III, p54: "Henry then sought the hand of Eleanor, a girl of twelve years old, and the second of the four daughters of Raymond Berengar IV, Count of Provence, and his wife Beatrice, sister of Amadeus III, Count of Savoy. The marriage contract was signed in October. Before that time Eleanor had left Provence under the escort of her mother's brother, William, bishop-elect of Valence..."

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ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJ8-F6.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth T990834-36-1396383 Beatrice De SAVOIE, TMC Beatrice of PROVENCE.

IGI Birth T990834-36-1396383 Marguerite De PROVENCE Father Raimond Berenger V PROVENCE Mother Beatrice De SAVOIE 1221 St Maime Provence Province France.

   Marriage Information:

Beatrice married Count Raimond Berenger PROVENCE, VI, son of Count Alfonso Aragon PROVENCE, II and Countess Gersinde De Sabran CASTELRAD, II, on 5 Dec 1219-1220 in , Provence, France. (Count Raimond Berenger PROVENCE, VI was born about 1196-1198 in Aix-En-Provence, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France and died on 19 Aug 1245 in , , France.)

   Marriage Information:

Beatrice also married King Karl NAPLES, I in 1267.