Beatrix de Courtenay (died after 1245) was a Titular Countess of
Edessa
Edessa (; ) was an ancient city (''polis'') in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It was founded during the Hellenistic period by Macedonian general and self proclaimed king Seleucus I Nicator (), founder of the Sel ...
and Countess consort of
Henneberg as the wife of
Otto von Botenlauben. She was the eldest daughter of
Agnes of Milly and
Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, who sold Chastel
Neuf and
Toron
Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus. The castle was the centre of the Lordship of Toron, a seigneury within the Kingdom of Jerusa ...
to the Teutonic order. She was named after Joscelin’s mother.
Beatrix married firstly William of Valence. By 1208 Beatrix married Otto whom she bore sons Otto and Henry.
In 1220 Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband sold their land in
Galilee
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''Galilee'' encompasses the area north of the Mount Carmel-Mount Gilboa ridge and ...
, including "one third of the
fief
A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal alle ...
of St. George", and "one third of the village of ''
Bokehel''", to the
Teutonic Knights
The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to t ...
.
[Strehlke, 1869, pp]
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44, No. 53; cited in Röhricht, 1893, RHH, p
248
No. 934 (38); cited in Frankel, 1988, pp. 253, 264–5
Otto and Beatrix founded the
Cistercian cloister of Frauenroth in 1231, where both are buried.
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1st house of Courtenay
Counts of Edessa
13th-century countesses regnant