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Birth:           939 Bourgogne, Champagne, France
Death:          23 Aug  987 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_France
Beatrice of France or Beatrice of Paris (c. 938 - 23 September 987) was a Robertian 
noblewoman, regent of Upper Lorraine in 978-980.

Life[edit]

A daughter of Hugh the Great and Hedwig of Saxony, making her sister of Hugh Capet 
and niece of Otto I. In 954, aged 16, she married Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine 
(25 years her senior). They had four children:
Henry (died between 972 and 978)
Adalbero II (958–1005), bishop of Verdun and Metz
Thierry I (965–1026), count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine
Ida (970-1026), married in 1010 Radbot, Count of Habsburg (970-1027), who built the 
castle of Habichtsburg and is thus an ancestor of the great Habsburg family which 
dominated Europe in the sixteenth century.

After her husband's death in 978 she acted as regent to her son Thierry during his 
minority, officially until 978 but effectively until 980. She travelled to Otto II's court in 
Verona in 983.

Parents
OF NEUSTRIA Hugh Magnus "The Great" ( 898 - 16 Jun  956)
OF SAXONY Hedwig (ABT  915 - 14 Mar  965)

Siblings
OF FRANCE Beatrice ( 939 - 23 Aug  987)
CAPET Hugh ( 941 - 24 Oct  996)

Marriage To ____ Frederick (Friedrich) I "Ferry" ( 912 - 18 May  978)
    m.  954 

Notes

Parents
OF LOTHARINGIA Wigerich (ABT  886 - BEF  923)
____ Cunigunde (ABT  893 - AFT  923)

Children by ____ Frederick (Friedrich) I "Ferry"  912 - 18 May  978
----- ----- (ABT  955 - )
OF LORRAINE Theodoric (Dietrich) I (ABT  965 - ABT 1026)

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