Holy Roman Empresses. She was the oldest daughter of the German King Philipp of Swabia and Irene of Byzantinum. In 1203 she was engaged to Otto of Wittelsbach, who would 5 years later murder her father. The engagement was soon dissolved again. In the summer of 1208 she was engaged to her fathers opponent for the German crown, Otto of Brunswick and married him on May 24th, 1209. The marriage was consummated on July 22th, 1212. Her death three weeks later and rumours of Friedrich of Hohenstaufen crossing the Alps were the beginning of the end of Ottos reign. Deserted by most of his loyal dukes he had to watch Friedrich reaching Constance and taking the city without the resistance of the citizens. Two years later he was defeated at Bouvines and resigned all his posts. Beatrix was buried in the Brunswick Cathedral St. Blasii, as was her husband Otto IV six years later. The tomb of the imperial couple was originally located close to the the tomb of Otto's parents Heinrich the Lion and his wife Mathilde, where since 2009 a memorial plaque on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Otto's imperial coronation commemorates the couple. Since Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel exhumed the bones of his ancestors, including those of Otto IV and Beatrix', buried in the nave in 1707, and buried them together in a monumental limestone in the northern apse of the cathedral.
Holy Roman Empresses. She was the oldest daughter of the German King Philipp of Swabia and Irene of Byzantinum. In 1203 she was engaged to Otto of Wittelsbach, who would 5 years later murder her father. The engagement was soon dissolved again. In the summer of 1208 she was engaged to her fathers opponent for the German crown, Otto of Brunswick and married him on May 24th, 1209. The marriage was consummated on July 22th, 1212. Her death three weeks later and rumours of Friedrich of Hohenstaufen crossing the Alps were the beginning of the end of Ottos reign. Deserted by most of his loyal dukes he had to watch Friedrich reaching Constance and taking the city without the resistance of the citizens. Two years later he was defeated at Bouvines and resigned all his posts. Beatrix was buried in the Brunswick Cathedral St. Blasii, as was her husband Otto IV six years later. The tomb of the imperial couple was originally located close to the the tomb of Otto's parents Heinrich the Lion and his wife Mathilde, where since 2009 a memorial plaque on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of Otto's imperial coronation commemorates the couple. Since Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel exhumed the bones of his ancestors, including those of Otto IV and Beatrix', buried in the nave in 1707, and buried them together in a monumental limestone in the northern apse of the cathedral.
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