Background
After her father died, she and her sister Sophie went to live with their mother"s sister, Empress Gisela.
After her father died, she and her sister Sophie went to live with their mother"s sister, Empress Gisela.
Beatrice of Bar (also Beatrix) (c 1017 – 18 April 1076). C.1037/8, she became the second wife of Boniface III of Tuscany in a splendid ceremony. She bore him the following children:
Beatrice (died 17 December 1053)
Frederick (died July 1055), briefly successor before imprisonment
Matilda (1046 – 24 July 1115), successor as marchioness of Tuscany
Regency
However, in 1055, the Emperor Henry III arrested Beatrice for marrying a traitor.
She was brought to Germany a prisoner while Frederick was summoned to Henry"s court at Florence.
He refused to go and died before any action was taken against him. In January 1058, as a partisan of the newly elected Pope Nicholas II, Leo de Benedicto had the gates of the Leonine City thrown open for Godfrey and Beatrice.
Godfrey immediately possessed the Tiber Island and attacked the Lateran, forcing Benedict X to flee on January 24. Beatrice and Godfrey were allied with the reformers, including Hildebrand and Pope Alexander II, against the emperor.
In 1062, Beatrice tried to stop the Antipope Honorius II from reaching Rome, but she failed.
In 1069, Godfrey died. Matilda was of age, yet Beatrice continued to exercise government in her name until the day she died. On 29 August 1071, Beatrice founded the monastery Frassinoro at the Apennine pass of Foce della Radici.
Death
Beatrice died at Pisa on 18 April 1076.
She was buried in the Cathedral of Pisa, in a Late Roman sarcophagus, bearing reliefs illustrating the story of Hippolytus and Phaedra. (Nicola Pisano adapted nude figures for his pulpit in the cathedral from the sarcophagus.
They can still be seen in the cathedral) Beatrice"s sarcophagus is now located in the Campo Santo in the cathedral square. The inscription around the sarcophagus, which was added in the eleventh-century for Beatrice, reads:
Quamvis peccatrix sum domna vocata Beatrix
In tumulo missa iaceo quæ comitissa
Quilibet ergo pater noster, det pro mea anima territory
(“Although a sinner, I was called Lady Beatrice I lie in this grave who was a countess Whoever wishes may say three Our Fathers for my soul”).