Beatrice de Frangepan ( Croatian: Beatrica Frankopan, Hungarian: Frangepán Beatrix), (1480 – c. 27 March 1510) was a

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n noblewoman, a member of the

House of Frankopan The House of Frankopan ( hr, Frankopani, Frankapani, it, Frangipani, hu, Frangepán, la, Frangepanus, Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croati ...

that lived in the Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary. By marriage she was heiress of

Hunyad Castle Corvin Castle, also known as Hunyadi Castle or Hunedoara Castle (Romanian: ''Castelul Huniazilor'' or ''Castelul Corvinilor;'' Hungarian: ''Vajdahunyadi vár''), is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara, Romania. It is one of the largest c ...

and Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Life

Beatrice Frangipani was a daughter of Bernardin Frankopan, Knez (Prince) of

Krk Krk (; it, Veglia; ruo, Krk; dlm, label= Vegliot Dalmatian, Vikla; la, Curicta; grc-gre, Κύρικον, Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kot ...

and

Modruš Modruš is a village, former bishopric and current Latin Catholic titular see in the mountainous part of Croatia, located south of its municipality's seat Josipdol (Karlovac County), on the easternmost slopes of Velika Kapela mountain, in northe ...

(1453–1529) from his marriage to Donna Luisa Marzano d'Aragona, daughter of Giovanni Francesco Marino Marzano, Prince of

Squillace Squillace ( grc, Σκυλλήτιον ''Skylletion''; grc-x-medieval, Σκυλάκιον ''Skylakion'') is an ancient town and ''comune'', in the Province of Catanzaro, part of Calabria, southern Italy, facing the Gulf of Squillace. Squillace ...

. Her brother

Christoph Frankopan Christoph Frankopan ( hr, Krsto Frankopan Brinjski, hu, Frangepán Kristóf; it, Cristoforo Frangipani; 1482 – 22 September 1527) was a Croatian count from the noble House of Frankopan. As a supporter of King John I of Hungary during the s ...

(1482–1527) was Ban (Viceroy) of Croatia under the reign of the Hungarian king

John Zápolya John Zápolya or Szapolyai ( hu, Szapolyai/ Zápolya János, hr, Ivan Zapolja, ro, Ioan Zápolya, sk, Ján Zápoľský; 1490/91 – 22 July 1540), was King of Hungary (as John I) from 1526 to 1540. His rule was disputed by Archduke Ferd ...

. Beatrice first married in 1496 to

John Corvinus John Corvinus ( Hungarian: ''Corvin János'', Croatian: ''Ivaniš Korvin'', Romanian: ''Ioan Corvin''; 2 April 1473 – 12 October 1504) was the illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and his mistress, Barbara Edelpöck. Biograp ...

(1473–1504), an illegitimate son of King

Matthias Corvinus Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several mi ...

of Hungary, with whom she had three children: * Elisabeth (1496–1508). *

Christoph Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenho ...

(1499–1505), the last of the House of Hunyadi Corvinus. * Matthias (1504–1505).

She was described as extremely beautiful and after her husband's death she inherited

and she administered her children's estates. However, they both died young (probably poisoned), soon after their father. After the mourning period, King

Vladislaus II of Hungary Vladislaus II, also known as Vladislav, Władysław or Wladislas ( hu, II. Ulászló; 1 March 1456 – 13 March 1516), was King of Bohemia from 1471 to 1516, and King of Hungary and Croatia from 1490 to 1516. As the eldest son of Casimir IV Jagi ...

had her married to his nephew, the

Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...

prince George of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1484–1543), on 21 January 1509 in Gyula. King Vladislav transferred all of the Corvinus property to George. Apart from Hunyad Castle, this included, among others, the fortress of Lipova with 252 villages. Through his wife, George became one of the most powerful landowners in Hungary, though he had to cope with border disputes with the rivalling Szapolyai dynasty. Parts of the

Bibliotheca Corviniana Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world, established by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in Buda Castle between 1458 and 1490. The books were transferred to Istanbul after the Hungarian defeat by th ...

ended up in

Wolfenbüttel Wolfenbüttel (; nds, Wulfenbüddel) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest c ...

, due to Beatrice. After Beatrice's death, only one year after the marriage, George sold the bulk of the Hungarian possessions and purchased several

Silesian duchies The Duchies of Silesia were the more than twenty divisions of the region of Silesia formed between the 12th and 14th centuries by the breakup of the Duchy of Silesia, then part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1335, the duchies were ceded to the King ...

instead.

References

* Nepomuki Janos Mailath: ''history of the Magyars'', 1852, p. 305
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For the family of the Counts Frangipani of Dalmatia e Croatia, counts of di Veglae, Modrussae e Vinodol, for the legitims heirs and descendants see the family Damiani di Vergada Gliubavaz Frangipani (Frankopan) Detrico si veda: * Friederich Heyer von Rosenfield (1873), "Counts Frangipani or Frankopanovich conts of Vegliae, Segniae, Modrussa, Vinodol or Damiani di Vergada Gliubavaz Frangipani (Frankopan) Detrico", in
''Wappenbuch: Der Adel des Königreichs Dalmatien'', Volume 4, part 3
(in German). Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe, p. 44. * Friederich Heyer von Rosenfield (1873), "Counts Frangipani or Frankopanovich or Damiani di Vergada Gliubavaz Frangipani (Frankopan) Detrico", in
''Wappenbuch: Der Adel des Königreichs Dalmatien'', Volume 4, part 3
(in German). Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe, p. 45. * Friederich Heyer von Rosenfield (1873), "Coats of arms of Counts Frangipani or Frankopanovich or Damiani di Vergada Gliubavaz Frangipani (Frankopan) Detrico", in
''Wappenbuch: Der Adel des Königreichs Dalmatien'', Volume 4, part 3
(in German). Nürnberg: Bauer und Raspe, taf. 30. * Victor Anton Duisin (1938), "Counts Damjanić Vrgadski Frankopan Ljubavac Detrico", in
"Zbornik Plemstva"
(in Croatian). Zagreb: Tisak Djela i Grbova, p. 155-156. * "Counts Damjanić Vrgadski Frankopan Ljubavac Detrico" in

in Croatian). Zagreb: on line. {{DEFAULTSORT:Frangepan, Beatrice De 1480 births 1510 deaths 15th-century Croatian people Beatrice Hunyadi family 15th-century Croatian nobility 16th-century Croatian nobility Croatian people of Italian descent 15th-century Croatian women

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