(Not to be confused with Princess Beatrice of York)
Beatrice of England (25 June 1242 – 24 March 1275) was a daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.
She was a younger sister of Edward I of England and an older sister of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster.
King Håkon Håkonsson of Norway in the 1250s tried to obtain Beatrice as a wife for his son Magnus, but his advances were politely rejected by king Henry, as negotiations for Beatrice's hand were already being conducted with the French king.[1]
On 22 January 1260, at the Abbey of Saint Denis, Beatrice married John II, Duke of Brittany. They were parents to seven children:
- Arthur II, Duke of Brittany, born 1262
- Henry of Brittany, born ca 1264 and raised in England; died or killed in 1284 during his uncle Edward I's war in Wales, and buried there at Edward's expense
- John de Bretagne, 1st Earl of Richmond, born 1266
- Marie of Brittany, wife of Guy III of Châtillon (1268-1339)
- Pierre, Viscount de Leon (1269-1312)
- Blanche de Dreux, wife of Philip of Artois (1271-1327)
- Eleonore, Abbess of Fontevrault (1274/75-1329)
It is sometimes stated that Beatrice died in childbirth bearing her youngest daughter. She was buried in Greyfriars Church, Greenwich, London.
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