Beatrice of Bâgé

Beatrice of Savoy, (1278–1318), better known as Béatrice de Bâgé was born at Bâgé-le-Châtel, in Provence Fance, the second daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy and Sybille of Bâgé, she was a member of the House of Savoy.

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Education

She was from a Franco-Provençal linguistic background, in any case, from an early age Beatrice dedicated time to learn foreigner languages in presue to read religious books and historical records at monasteries and local abbies,[1] becoming one of the first ladies of her time to be able to write and read texts in various languages, at a level that only clergy or highly educated noble men were able. She was planning to become a nun at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion to dedicate her life to the cult and literature, when she met her first husband; she had one son and eventually was married twice.

Marital Unions

She married[2] in 1289 to Giacomo de Candia, Lord of Bresse and Count of Ventimiglia, and took residency near Chambery-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; He would die two years later.
From this marriage she will have her only son François de Candie; he was sent to study at the Monastic College at the Basilique de Valère.

Soon after she became a widow, her father married her by proxy[3] to Manfred III of Saluzzo, eventhought this marriage was not her choise she decided to follow duty, and moved with her new husband and sent her son to study at the Monastery of Sion. From then on Beatrice decided to be known as Lady Bâgé in the literary and monastic world, she contributed to the translation of many manuscripts and review of ancien texts, this information was recorded at the various local abbies in Provence and Piemonte where she used to spend time away from her second husband. Meanwhile records of her handsomely donations to the curia exist at Library of Nice. Not much is known about her life, except that by the time the comflict between France, Savoy and Switzerland, she retired to a castle in the Piemont belonguing to her son as part of her enheritance of her first husband.
Her rests were exumed at a Benedictine Monastery in the Piemonte Italy under the name of Beatrice de Candia, Lady of Bâgé.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ LES FRANCHISES D'ADHÉMAR FABRI – 1387 – ANALYSES DE TEXTES auteur: le prince-évêque de Genève Adhémar Fabri.(text in French)
  2. ^ Essai d'un précis de l'histoire de la république de Genève, by James Fazy
  3. ^ State Archives, volume 104, page 51, fascicule 9.1, and Guichenon (Savoie), Tome IV, Preuves.