Beatrice of Lorraine

Beatrice of Bar (also Beatrix) (c. 1020 – 18 April 1076) was a stateswoman and marchioness of Tuscany by marriage to Boniface III of Tuscany, and Regent of Tuscany from 1052 until her death during the minority of and in co-regency with her daughter Matilda. She was the daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine, count of Bar, and Matilda of Swabia. She was married first to Boniface III of Tuscany and later to Godfrey of Lotharingia.

Beatrice was born in what is now northeastern France around 1020. She was also known as Beatrice of Tuscany, Beatrice of Canossa, Stateswoman, Investiture Controversy, Italy.

After her father Duke Frederick II of Upper Lorraine died in 1033, she and her sister Sophie went to live with their mother's sister, Empress Gisela at the imperial court.

c.1037/8, she became the second wife of Boniface III of Tuscany in a splendid ceremony. She bore him the following children:

With Boniface's death on 6 May 1052, Beatrice assumed the regency for her son Frederick. Little is else is known about her life before the murder of her husband In 1054, to give her son the protection she could not militarily provide, she married her cousin, Godfrey, former duke of Lower Lorraine. 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. The heir of Boniface was now his youngest daughter Matilda, who was imprisoned with her mother.

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