At the time of his death (1313), Emperor Henry VII initiated the negotiations for a marriage between Beatrice and
Charles, Duke of Calabria, son and heir of King
Robert of Naples, and also planned to marry again (his wife was already dead in 1311) with
Catherine of Habsburg. Beatrice was called by her father to Italy, where she arrived with her paternal grandmother,
Beatrice d'Avesnes. The marriage plans with the Duke of Calabria failed, and the Emperor began negotiations for a marriage with
Prince Peter of Sicily, eldest son and heir of King
Frederick III; however, the current political conflicts between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Sicily soon ended this planned betrothal too. When King
Charles I of Hungary (whose first wife
Maria of Bytom, had died in 1317) decided to marry again, he sent to the
Kingdom of Bohemia two representants,
Thomas Szécsényi and
Simon Kacsics, in addition to an interpreter, a bourgeois from Szoprońskim called
Stephen, in order to find a bride. King John called his two sisters to his court; at that moment, Marie resided in
St. Marienthal Abbey and Beatrice remained in Italy. Both princesses arrived to
Prague on 20 June 1318, and three days later, the Hungarian envoys met both girls at the monastery of
Zbraslav, where the Bohemian king gave them the opportunity to choose between them their future queen. After a calculated assessment of both personal and physical attitudes, they chose Beatrice. Soon after, the formal engagement took place, and the young bride parted with the Hungarian entourage to her new home. On the border of the Kingdom of Hungary she was officially welcomed by Charles I's messengers. Beatrice and Charles I married at the
Octave of Saint Martin (between 12 and 17 November) and she was crowned Queen of Hungary in the ceremony. Beatrice became pregnant in 1319. In November, she went into labour but died while giving birth. The child was stillborn. She was buried at
Nagyvárad Cathedral. ==References==