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 Agnes of Dampierre (1237 – 7 September 1288) was Lady of Bourbon and heiress of all Bourbon estates. She was the daughter of Archambaud IX de Dampierre and Yolande I, Countess of Nevers. She married John of Burgundy, the son of Hugh IV ...

, Lady of Bourbon. In 1272 Beatrice married Robert, Count of Clermont and their eldest son Louis I, ''le Boiteux'' became the first

Duke of Bourbon Duke of Bourbon (french: Duc de Bourbon) is a title in the peerage of France. It was created in the first half of the 14th century for the eldest son of Robert of France, Count of Clermont and Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of the lordship of ...

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Robert and Beatrice had the following children: * Louis I, ''le Boiteux'' (1279–1342), first

*Blanche (1281–1304), married in 1303 in

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, grandmother of Joan I, Countess of Auvergne *

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(1283–1322), Baron of Charolais, married c. 1309 Jeanne d'Argies and had issue *Mary (1285–1372, Paris), Prioress of Poissy *Peter (1287 – aft. 1330), Archdeacon of Paris *Margaret (1289–1309, Paris), married firstly in 1305

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(who died in 1307) and secondly in 1308 John I, Marquis of Namur

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Ottone and Acerbo Morena Ottone and his son Acerbo Morena (died 1167) of Lodi were Italian chroniclers who wrote in Latin of twelfth-century events from a Lombard point of view in a history of Lodi, ''De rebus Laudensibus'', ("Concerning Lodi") which was begun by Ottone. ...

in their ''Historia Frederici I'' described Beatrice as " medium height, her hair shone like gold, her face most beautiful..."''The origins of courtliness'', C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985,p. 172.

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