Beatrice of Sicily (1326–1365)

Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon (* 1326 in Palermo, † October 12, 1365 in Heidelberg) was Princess of Sicily -Aragon and by marriage Countess Palatine of the Rhine.

Life

Beatrix was one of the six daughters of King Peter II of Sicily (1305-1342) and his wife Elisabeth of Carinthia. The parents of Princess Beatrix resided in Palermo, where they probably came to the world. Your great aunt Isabel of Portugal (1271-1336), the sister of her paternal grandfather, is revered as a saint.

1345 married Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon Count Palatine Ruprecht II of the Palatinate Wittelsbach.

Ruprecht II supported his uncle Prince Elector Ruprecht I. actively in the government of the Palatinate, and was constantly in that capacity on the go. The mother of Prince Elector Ruprecht II lived as a nun in the convent Liebenau to Worms. There, his wife Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon held on more often. The Dominican Johannes Meyer (1422-1482) reported that Pfalzgräfin Beatrix in Liebenau her son Ruprecht gave birth and this grew to 7 years there.

Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon died in 1365, before her husband succeeded his uncle Rupert I, and at his death in 1390 as Elector. She was buried in the Cistercian monastery of Schoenau near Heidelberg. In the Wittelsbach founded as Memoria of the house collegiate church ( Neustadt on the Wine Route ) is an everlasting measuring memory for Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon.

The aunt ( her father's sister ) of Countess Palatine Beatrix, Margaret of Sicily -Aragon, had married in 1348 Count Palatine Rudolf II of the Palatinate, the uncle of her husband Ruprecht II

Progeny

Countess Palatine Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon and her husband Rupert II of the Palatinate had seven children:

  • Anna (1346-1408) ∞ 1360 Duke William II of Berg
  • Friedrich (1347-1395)
  • Johann (1349-1395)
  • Mechthild (1350-1378) ∞ 1378 Graf Sigost of Leuchtenberg
  • Elisabeth (1351-1401), engaged with the Viscount Albert of Nuremberg
  • Ruprecht (III ) ( 1352-1410 ) ∞ 1374 Countess Elizabeth Castle of Nuremberg ( 1358-1411 )
  • Adolf (1355-1358)
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