Beatrice of England

(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. [http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/middelalder/diplom_vise_tekst.prl?b=16225&s=n&str=]

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.