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Family: Godfrey II (III)The Bearded of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine / Beatrice of Bar (F13757)

• Male Godfrey II (III)The Bearded of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine

  
  

  Birth	Abt 997
  Death	1069
  Burial
  Marriage	1053
  Other Spouse	Doda | F551618640
  Marriage
  Father	Gothelo (Gozelo) I the Great, Duke of Lorraine | F551618473 Group Sheet
  Mother	Junca (Urracca), Princess of Italy | F551618473 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Beatrice of Bar

  
  

  Birth	Abt 1017
  Death	18 Apr 1076
  Burial		Cathedral of Pisa
  Other Spouse	Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany | F13758
  Marriage
  Father	Frederick II, Duke of Upper Lorraine | F551618548 Group Sheet
  Mother	Matilde of Swabia, Duchess of Swabia | F551618548 Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Married: The elder Beatrice, in order to protect her children's inheritance, married Godfrey the Bearded , a cousin who had been Duke of Upper Lorraine before rebelling against the Emperor Henry III . The two were married in 1053 or 1054 in the church of San Pietro at Mantua by Pope Leo IX himself as he returned from a trip to Germany. the same time, Matilda was betrothed to Godfrey the Hunchback , a son of Godfrey the Bearded by a previous marriage and thus her stepbrother.