Beatrice of Hungary (1290 – 1343 or 1354) was a Dauphine of Viennois by marriage to

John II of Viennois Jean II de la Tour du Pin (1280 – 5 March 1319, Pont de Sorgues, near Avignon) succeeded his father Humbert I as dauphin of Viennois from 1306 to 1318. His mother was Anne of Burgundy, dauphine du Viennois. In 1296 he married Beatrice of ...

Life

She was the elder daughter and the second of three children of

Charles Martel of Anjou Charles Martel ( hu, Martell Károly; 8 September 1271 – 12 August 1295) of the Angevin dynasty was the eldest son of king Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary, the daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary. __NOTOC__ The 18-year-old Charles Mar ...

and

Klementia of Habsburg Clemence of Austria (1262 – February 1293, or 1295) was a daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany and Gertrude of Hohenberg. She was a member of the House of Habsburg. Marriage On 8 January 1281, Clemence married Charles Martel of Anjou. Clemence ...

. She was a member of the

Capetian House of Anjou The Capetian House of Anjou or House of Anjou-Sicily, was a royal house and cadet branch of the direct French House of Capet, part of the Capetian dynasty. It is one of three separate royal houses referred to as ''Angevin'', meaning "from Anjou" ...

. Beatrice was thus maternal granddaughter of

Rudolf I of Germany Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death. Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum which h ...

and sister of

Charles I of Hungary Charles I, also known as Charles Robert ( hu, Károly Róbert; hr, Karlo Robert; sk, Karol Róbert; 128816 July 1342) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the only son of ...

and

Clementia of Hungary Clementia of Hungary (french: Clémence; 1293–13 October 1328) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Louis X. Life Clementia was the daughter of Charles Martel of Anjou, the titular King of Hungary, and Clemence of Austri ...

. When Beatrice was just six years old, in 1296, at

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, she was married to

, who was ten years her senior. The couple had two sons: When her husband died in 1319, Beatrice became a nun at Cîteaux. She remained here until 1340, when she transferred to the . Her son founded for her the convent of Saint-Just dans le Royannais. Beatrice died in 1343 (or 1354). She died in the convent which her sons had founded for her.

Issue

* Guigues VIII (1309 † 1333), dauphin of Viennois. Married to

Isabella of France Isabella of France ( – 22 August 1358), sometimes described as the She-Wolf of France (), was Queen of England as the wife of King Edward II, and regent of England from 1327 until 1330. She was the youngest surviving child and only surviving ...

* Humbert II (1312 † 1355), dauphin of Viennois. Married to Marie of Baux

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