Background
She was born into the House of Aragon.
She was born into the House of Aragon.
Beatrice was the third of eight children, all of them living to adulthood apart from one sister, Violente. Beatrice"s siblings included: Frederick III the Simple, Euphemia, Constance (both regents of Sicily), Eleanor, wife of Peter II of Aragon, Louis of Sicily, and Blanche, Countess of Ampurias. Beatrice"s parents resided in Palermo, where Beatrice was likely born.
In 1345, Beatrice married Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine from the House of Wittelsbach.
They needed a papal dispensation in order to marry. Beatrice"s mother-in-law Irmengard of Oettingen lived as a nun in the convent at Worms.
Beatrice and Rupert had the following children:
Anna (1346 – 30 November 1415), married in 1363 to Duke Wilhelm VII of Jülich and Berg
Friedrich (1347 – ca 1395)
Johann (1349 – ca 1395)
Mechthild (b 1350), married to Landgrave Sigost of Leuchtenberg
Elisabeth (ca 1351 – 1360)
King Rupert of Germany (1352–1410)
Adolf (1355 – 1 May 1358)
She was buried in the Cistercian monastery of Schönau near Heidelberg. The House of Wittelsbach founded the Collegiate Church in memory for Beatrice.