Beatrice of Naples

Beatrix of Aragon (* November 16, 1457 in Capua, † September 23, 1508 in Naples) was the daughter of Ferdinand I, King of Naples. She was the wife of Matthias Corvinus and thus Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

Beatrix had received an excellent education at her father's farm. Contemporaries praised their exceptional education. They married on December 22, 1476 in the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus oven. Ten days earlier she had been crowned Queen of Hungary.

Through their influence Hungary rose to become a center of the Renaissance. On the Visegrád castle, a Renaissance palace was built for the first time outside of Italy, which was the center of court life. Housed here Bibliotheca Corvina was one of the most important libraries of its time, surpassed only by the collections of the Vatican. The University of plague was renewed on her instigation, founded in Pressburg a new one.

But the marriage remained childless. The Testament of the King acting contrary, who had determined his extramarital son János Corvin to his successor, Beatrix wanted to get her throne. You helped Vladislav II, the son of the Polish king, with the support of the Hungarian nobility to the throne and received a promise of marriage. The marriage was celebrated by the Bishop of Esztergom Tamás Bakócz on October 4, 1490. Vladislav II operation after the coronation of the ( canonically actually not possible ) divorce from Beatrix. Because of an error that was committed by the bishop deliberately, was the marriage on April 2, 1500 by Pope Alexander VI. be canceled.

Beatrix returned to Naples, where she died on the island of Ischia on 23 September 1508 a monastery.