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Beatrix de Courtenay (died after 1245) was a Titular Countess of Edessa and Countess consort of Henneberg as the wife of

Otto von Botenlauben Otto von Botenlauben or Botenlouben (1177, County of Henneberg, Henneberg – before 1245, near Bad Kissingen), the House of Henneberg, Count of Henneberg from 1206, was a German minnesinger, Crusades, Crusader and monastic founder. Otto von B ...

. She was the eldest daughter of Agnes of Milly ( de) and

Joscelin III, Count of Edessa Joscelin III of Edessa (1139 – after 1190) was the titular Count of Edessa, who during his lifetime managed to amass enough land to establish the '' Seigneurie of Joscelin.'' Early life He was the son of Joscelin II and his wife Beatrice ...

, who sold Chastel Neuf and

Toron Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusalem ...

to the Teutonic order. She was named after Joscelin’s mother. Beatrix married firstly William of Valence. By 1208 Beatrix married Otto whom she bore sons Otto and Henry. In 1220 Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband sold their land in Galilee, including "one third of the

fief A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form ...

of St. George", and "one third of the village of ''

Bokehel Peki'in (alternatively Peqi'in) ( he, פְּקִיעִין) or Buqei'a ( ar, البقيعة), is a Druze–Arab town with local council status in Israel's Northern District. It is located eight kilometres east of Ma'alot-Tarshiha in the Up ...

''", to the

Teutonic Knights The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, commonly known as the Teutonic Order, is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. It was formed to aid Christians o ...

.Strehlke, 1869, pp
43
44, No. 53; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RHH, p
248
No. 934 (38); cited in Frankel, 1988, pp. 253, 264–5 Otto and Beatrix founded the Cistercian cloister of Frauenroth in 1231, where both are buried.

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