Beatrice of Bâgé

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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.

Education

She was from a Franco-Provençal linguistic background but Beatrice learned foreigner languages at an early age in order 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 religion and literature when she met her first husband; she had one son and eventually was married twice.

Interior of the church of Brou

Marital Unions

She was married[2] in 1289 to Giacomo de Candia, Lord of Bresse and Count of Ventimiglia. They took residency near Chambéry-Le-Vieux at the Chateau de Candie by the L’ombre Paradise; He died two years later. From this marriage Beatrice had 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, even though this marriage was not her choice she decided to follow duty, and moved with her new husband and sent her son to study at the Monastery of Sion. [Preceding wrong, as Manfred III died in 1244, before this Beatrice's birth (b. 1278). Manfred III was actually married to Beatrice of Savoy (b.c. 1223, d.c. 1259) daughter of Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy and Anne of Burgundy (b.1192).] 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 ancient texts, this information was recorded at the various local abbeys in Provence and Piemonte where she used to spend time away from her second husband. Meanwhile records of her handsome donations to the curia exist at Library of Nice. Not much is known about her life, except that by the time the conflict between France, Savoy and Switzerland, she retired to a castle in the Piemont belonging to her son as part of her inheritance of her first husband.
Her remains were exhumed at a Benedictine Monastery in Piemonte Italy under the name of Beatrice de Candia, Lady of Bâgé.

References

  • SAVOY, Medieval Lands (Library of France, Paris)
  • Essai d'un précis de l'histoire de la république de Genève, by James Fazy
  • Histoire universelle de l'église catholique, Volume 11, by René François Rohrbacher, Fèvre (Justin Louis Pierre, Monseigneur)
  • LES FRANCHISES D'ADHÉMAR FABRI – 1387 – ANALYSES DE TEXTES auteur: le prince-évêque de Genève Adhémar Fabri.(text in French)
  • MILLION (François-Marie), 1913, Biographie de Benoît-Théophile de Chevron-Villette archevêque et Comte de tarentaise 1633–1658, 42 p.
  • State Archives, volume 104, page 51, fascicule 9.1, and Guichenon (Savoie), Tome IV, Preuves.

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.
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