Princess Beatrice SWABIA

   Other names for Beatrice were SCHWABEN, SWABIA Princess, Beatrix and GERMANY.

   Ancestral File Number: 9BBL-P4.

   General Notes:

Princess of SWABIA.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1989: "Fernando III, Son of Alfonso IX King of Leon and Berenguela of Aragon, King of Castilla 1217-1252, King of Leon 1230-1252, Mar =1 Beatrix Daughter of Philipp of Schwaben, =2 Jeanne of Aumale & Ponthieu."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Micropaedia, Vol IV, p98, Ferdinand III the Saint: "...Ferdinand was a religious zealot and, perhaps urged on by his first wife, Beatrice of Swabia, he set about destroying Moorish rule in Andalusia with a vigour and a crusading zeal that were new in Spanish Christian relations with the Moors..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 9BBL-P4 Beatrice Princess of GERMANY, 91RL-MH Beatrice GERMANY.

   Marriage Information:

Beatrice married King Saint Ferdinand CASTILE & LEON, III, son of King Alfonso CASTILE & LEON, IX and Queen Berengaria Aragon CASTILE & LEON, before 1228. (King Saint Ferdinand CASTILE & LEON, III was born bet 5 - 19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Leon, Spain, christened on 19 Aug 1201, died on 30 May 1252 in Seville, Seville, Spain and was buried in Seville, Seville, Spain.)