Beatrice de France (c938-aft987)

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Beatrice de France
Beatrice of France in the Chronica regia Coloniensis
Birth:	938
Death:	978
Father:	Hugh the Great (898-956)
Mother:	Hadwig von Sachsen (c917-959)
Spouse / partner:	Frederick of Bar (?-978)
Wedding:	954
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• Duchess Consort of Upper Lorraine
• Regent of Upper Lorraine for minority of for Thierry I, Duke of Lorraine

Beatrice de France was born circa 938 to Hugh the Great (898-956) and Hadwig von Sachsen (c917-959) and died after 978 of unspecified causes. She married Frederick of Bar (?-978) 954 ^JL .

Beatrice of France or Beatrice of Paris was Duchess consort of Upper Lorraine by marriage to Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine, and regent of Upper Lorraine in 978-980 during the minority of her son Thierry I de Bar (c965-c1026).

Life

Beatrice was a daughter of Hugh the Great (898-956) and Hadwig von Sachsen (c917-959), making her sister of Hugh Capet (c940-996) and niece of Otto I von Sachsen (912-973), Holy Roman Emperor.

In 954, she married Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine.

After her husband's death in 978 she acted as regent to her son Thierry during his minority, officially until 978, but effectively until 980.

She travelled to Otto II's court in Verona in 983.

Family

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1. Henri de Bar (?-c975) (died between 972 and 978)
2. Adalberon de Bar (958-1005), bishop of Verdun and Metz
3. Thierry I de Bar (c965-c1026), count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine
4. Ida de Bar (?-?), married in 1010 Radbot, Count of Habsburg (970-1027), who built the castle of Habichtsburg and is thus an ancestor of the great Habsburg family which dominated Europe in the sixteenth century.
5. Unknown other children??

Children

Offspring of Frederick of Bar (?-978) and Beatrice de France
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Henri de Bar (?-c975)		975
Adalberon de Bar (958-1005)	958	1005
Thierry I de Bar (c965-c1026)	965	1026	Richilde von Bliesgau und Metz (?-?)
Ida de Bar (?-?)			Radbot von Klettgau (985-1045)
Unknown de Bar (?-?)			Berthold von Reisensburg (c930-c999)

Siblings

Offspring of Hugh the Great (898-956) and Hadwig von Sachsen (c917-959)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Beatrice de France (c938-aft987)	938	978	Frederick of Bar (?-978)
Hugh Capet, King of France (c940-996)	940 Paris, France	24 October 996 Paris, France	Adelaide of Aquitaine (c945-1004)
Emma de France (?-968)	943	19 March 968	Richard I, Duke of Normandy (933-996)
Otton de Bourgogne (c945-965)	945	22 February 965	Liegearde de Chalon (-aft958)
Henri I de Bourgogne (c948-1002)	948	15 October 1002	Gerberga de Macon (?-c988) Garsende de Gascogne (c977-) Mahaut de Chalon (?-1019)

Offspring of Hugh the Great (898-956) and Raingarde (c910-c965)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Heribert of Auxerre (?-994)		994

See Also

• Charlemagne Family Ancestry
• wikipedia:en:Beatrice of France
• Beatrice of Paris at thePeerage
• Capetian Kings - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
• Beatrix de France - Geni.com
• Beatrice of France at Find A Grave
• Leyser, Karl (1994). Reuter, Timothy. ed. Communications and Power in Medieval Europe. The Hambledon Press. ISBN 9781852851132. https://archive.org/details/communicationspo0000leys. 
• Wickham, Chris (2009). The Inheritance of Rome. Viking Penguin. ISBN 9780670020980. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780670020980. 
• http://mittelaltergazette.de/11792/wissenswertes/beatrix-von-franzien-graefin-von-bar-und-herzogin-von-lotharingen/
• http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/mittelalter-genealogie/robertiner_herzoege_von_franzien/beatrix_von_franzien_herzogin_von_oberlothringen_nach_987.html