Beatrix de Courtenay
Beatrix de Courtenay (died after 1245) was a Titular Countess of Edessa[1] and Countess consort of Henneberg as the wife of Otto von Botenlauben.[2] She was the eldest daughter of Agnes of Milly[3][4] and Joscelin III, Count of Edessa,[5][6] who gave Chastel Neuf and Toron to Beatrix. 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.
Otto and Beatrix founded the Cistercian cloister of Frauenroth in 1231, where both are buried. According to the legend, Beatrix’s veil was blown away while she and her husband were walking around Botenlauben Castle, and she promised to build a monastery wherever it landed.
Sources
- ^ Women in power
- ^ Medieval Lands, "Edessa"
- ^ Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges, Peerage of England
- ^ Lignages d'Outremer
- ^ R. L. Nicholson, Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States, 1134–1199. Leiden, 1973.
- ^ Hans E. Mayer: Die Seigneurie de Joscelin und der Deutsche Orden. In: Josef Fleckenstein/Manfred Hellmann: Die geistlichen Ritterorden Europas. Vorträge und Forschungen 26. Sigmaringen 1980, S. 171–216.