Beatrice of Luxembourg ( hu, Luxemburgi Beatrix; 1305 – 11 November 1319), was by birth member of the

House of Luxembourg The House of Luxembourg ( lb, D'Lëtzebuerger Haus; french: Maison de Luxembourg; german: Haus Luxemburg) or Luxembourg dynasty was a royal family of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as kin ...

and by marriage

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. She was the youngest child of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and his wife,

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. Her two siblings were

John of Luxembourg John the Blind or John of Luxembourg ( lb, Jang de Blannen; german: link=no, Johann der Blinde; cz, Jan Lucemburský; 10 August 1296 – 26 August 1346), was the Count of Luxembourg from 1313 and King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of ...

and

Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Charles IV and I. She was the daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret of Brabant. Her two siblings were John of Luxembou ...

Life

At the time of his death (1313), Emperor Henry VII initiated the negotiations for a marriage between Beatrice and

Charles, Duke of Calabria Charles, Duke of Calabria (1298 – 9 November 1328), was the son of King Robert of Naples and Yolanda of Aragon. Charles was born in Naples in 1298, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King Charles II, the second king of the Angevin ...

, son and heir of King

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, and also planned to marry again (his wife was already dead in 1311) with Catherine of Habsburg. Beatrice was called by her father to Italy, where she arrived with her paternal grandmother, Beatrice d'Avesnes. The marriage plans with the Duke of Calabria failed, and the Emperor began negotiations for a marriage with Prince Peter of Sicily, eldest son and heir of King Frederick III; however, the current political conflicts between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily soon ended this planned betrothal too. When King

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(whose first wife Maria of Bytom, had died in 1317) decided to marry again, he sent to the

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two representants,

Thomas Szécsényi Thomas (I) Szécsényi ( hu, Szécsényi (I.) Tamás; died 1354) was a Hungarian powerful baron and soldier, who rose to prominence during King Charles I's war against the oligarchs. He belonged to the so-called "new aristocracy", who supported th ...

and

Simon Kacsics Simon from the kindred Kacsics ( hu, Kacsics nembeli Simon, hr, Šimun Kačić; died after 1228) was a Hungarian distinguished nobleman from the ''gens'' Kacsics (Kačić). He was one of the leading instigators of Queen Gertrude's assassinatio ...

, in addition to an interpreter, a bourgeois from Szoprońskim called

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, in order to find a bride. King John called his two sisters to his court; at that moment, Marie resided in St. Marienthal Abbey and Beatrice remained in Italy. Both princesses arrived to

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on 20 June 1318, and three days later, the Hungarian envoys met both girls at the monastery of

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, where the Bohemian king gave them the opportunity to choose between them their future queen. After a calculated assessment of both personal and physical attitudes, they chose Beatrice. Soon after, the formal engagement took place, and the young bride parted with the Hungarian entourage to her new home. On the border of the Kingdom of Hungary she was officially welcomed by Charles I's messengers. Beatrice and Charles I married at the ''Octave of Saint Martin'' (between 12 and 17 November) and she was crowned Queen of Hungary in the ceremony. Beatrice became pregnant in 1319. In November, she went into labour but died while giving birth. The child was stillborn. She was buried at

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Cathedral.

References

*Włodzimierz Dworzaczek: ''Genealogia'', Warsaw 1959, tab. 46. *Jiří Spěváček: ''Jan Lucemburský a jeho doba 1296-1346'', Prague 1994, p. 111, 176, 182, 266, 318. *Stanisław A. Sroka: ''Genealogia Andegawenów węgierskich'', Kraków 1999, pp. 14–16. {{DEFAULTSORT:Beatrice Of Luxembourg 1305 births 1319 deaths 14th-century Luxembourgian people 14th-century Hungarian women 14th-century German women 14th-century Luxembourgian women Hungarian queens consort House of Luxembourg Hungarian people of Luxembourgian descent Deaths in childbirth Medieval Luxembourgian nobility Daughters of emperors Daughters of kings