Beatrice of Burgundy, Lady of Bourbon explained

Beatrice of Burgundy
Noble Family:	Burgundy
Father:	John of Burgundy
Mother:	Agnes of Dampierre
Spouse:	Robert, Count of Clermont
Birth Date:	1257
Death Date:	(aged 52 or 53)

Beatrice of Burgundy (1257  - October 1, 1310) was a ruling Lady of Bourbon in 1288-1310 and, through her mother, heiress of all Bourbon estates.

She was the daughter of John of Burgundy (son of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy) and Agnes of Dampierre, Lady of Bourbon. In 1272 Beatrice married Robert, Count of Clermont^[1] and their eldest son Louis I, le Boiteux became the first Duke of Bourbon.

Issue

Robert and Beatrice had the following children:

• Louis I, le Boiteux (1279 - 1342), first Duke of Bourbon
• Blanche (1281 - 1304), married in 1303 in Paris Robert VII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, grandmother of Joan I, Countess of Auvergne
• John (1283 - 1322), Baron of Charolais, married c. 1309 Jeanne d'Argies and had issue
• Mary (1285 - 1372, Paris), Prioress of
• Peter (1287  - aft. 1330), Archdeacon of Paris
• Margaret (1289 - 1309, Paris), married firstly in 1305 Raymond Berengar of Andria (who died in 1307) and secondly in 1308 John I, Marquis of Namur

Physical appearance

Ottone and Acerbo Morena in their Historia Frederici I described Beatrice as "[O]f medium height, her hair shone like gold, her face most beautiful..."^[2]

See also

• Dukes of Bourbon family tree

Notes and References

1. Gábor Klaniczay, Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses: Dynastic Cults in Medieval Central Europe, translator Eva Palmai, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), 442
2. The origins of courtliness, C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985,p. 172.