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Beatrice of Rethel (1130/35Шаблон:Sfn – 30 March 1185) was a French noblewoman and Queen of Sicily as the third wife of Roger II.Шаблон:Sfn

Family

Beatrice was born in 1130 or 1135, the eldest daughter and one of the nine children of Guitier of Rethel and Beatrix of Namur.Шаблон:Sfn Her father was Count of Rethel from 1158 to 1171.

Marriage, issue and widowhood

In 1151, Beatrice married Roger II of Sicily.Шаблон:Sfn She was queen for three years, until Roger's death on 26 February 1154.Шаблон:Sfn Beatrice was a little over three weeks pregnant at the time of his death, and their only child, Constance, was born the following November.Шаблон:Sfn

Beatrice survived her husband by thirty-one years but there is no record of her having married again. Her daughter Constance was confined to a monastery as a nun since childhood due a prophecy that "her marriage would destroy the kingdom". Beatrice lived long enough to see her betrothed in 1184. Constance became queen of Sicily in 1194.Шаблон:Sfn

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