Beatrice (Plantagenet) de Dreux (1242 - 1275)

Born 25 Jun 1242 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France

Ancestors

Wife of Jean (Dreux) de Bretagne — married 22 Jan 1260 in Saint Denis, Île-de-France, France

Descendants

Died 24 Mar 1275 at age 32 in Westminster, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Beatrice (Plantagenet) de Dreux is a member of the House of Plantagenet.

Beatrice (Plantagenet) de Dreux is Notable.

Beatrice of England (25 June 1242[1] – 24 March 1275), also known as Beatrice de Dreux, was a Princess of England as the daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Her siblings were Edward I of England, Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, Richard of England, John of England, Katherine of England, William of England, and Henry of England. She and her family were members of the Royal house of Plantagenet, which first ruled in the 12th century and was founded by Henry II of England.

At one point, Henry conducted negotiations for Beatrice to marry the king of France and also rejected a proposal that she should wed the son of the King of Norway. When she was eighteen she married John de Dreux, heir to the dukedom of Brittany. Beatrice later changed her name to Beatrice de Dreux, and she and John II had six children:

• Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
• John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond
• Marie of Brittany, Countess of Saint-Pol, wife of Guy III of Châtillon (1268–1339)
• Pierre, Viscount de Leon (1269–1312)
• Blanche of Brittany, wife of Philip of Artois (1271–1327)
• Eleonore, Abbess of Fontevrault (1274–1329)

Beatrice died on 24 March 1275 in London, England. Her death was once said to have occurred in childbirth, but the dates do not bear out this theory, which has been disproved in several articles. John II honoured his wife with a chantry, an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, which was to be finished when he died, so that he and Beatrice would be together again. Beatrice was buried at Grey Friars Church in Greenwich, London.[2] Her husband succeeded as duke 11 years after her death, therefore Beatrice was never styled Duchess of Brittany.

From Wikipedia: Beatrice of England, accessed Jan 22, 2014

Sources

• ROYAL ANCESTRY by Douglas Richardson Vol. I, page 549