Béatrix de Bourbourg

Béatrix (°v. 1133 †?av.1142 with Ardres). Girl of Henri de Bourbourg and Sibyl of Guînes. Heiress of the county of Guînes.

Biography

Béatrix is reached great infirmities, such as the stone, or the gravel.

Its disease pushed her husband to leave it to join his country. Only, the death of Manassès, recalled it to the county of Guines.

But after having taken possession of the title and paid homage to Thierry of Alsace, Count de Flandre, it turned over to England, leaving his wife with Henri, the lord of the manor of Bourbourg, his father, and his ground to the guard of the lord of Ham.

However, it had a secret competitor with the sucession of the county of Guînes, in the person of Arnoul, lord of Tortehen, wire of Wenemar, lord of the manor of Ghent, lord of Bornhem and Gisele or Gillette, sister of Manassès Ier de Guînes.

Arnoul, benefitted from the absence of the husband of Béatrix, and taken the county. In vain, the partisans of Béatrix pushed the husband to intervene, but this one preferred to remain at the court of Etienne, King d' Angleterre where it was into large consideration.

His/her father, Henri de Bourbourg, seeing the indifference of Albéric the Wild boar hands of Arnoul. But Béatrix died a few days after its second marriage.

Béatrix was buried with the monastery of Holy Marie de Capelle, without posterity.

Marriage and children

Married to Albéric Wild boar, noble English.
Married to Baudouin.

Died without posterity.

Sources

art to check the dates of the historical facts, the charters, the old chronicles and other… by Maur-François Dantine, Charles Clémencet, Saint-Went (Nicolas Viton), Ursin Durand, François Clément
communal freedoms. Part 2. Test on their origin and their first developments in… by Alphonse Guillaume Ghislain Wauters

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