Beatrice of Rethel
Beatrice and her daughterConstance next to KingRoger on his deathbed. This illustration shows Beatrice holding her infant daughter in her arms; however, Constance was born almost nine months after her father's death.
Queen consort of Sicily
Tenure	1151 – 26 February 1154
Born	1130/35
Died	(1185-03-30)30 March 1185
Spouse	Roger II of Sicily
Issue	Constance I of Sicily
Father	Guitier, Count of Rethel
Mother	Beatrix of Namur

Beatrice of Rethel (1130/35^[1] – 30 March 1185) was a French noblewoman andQueen of Sicily as the third wife ofRoger II.^[2]

Beatrice was born in 1130 or 1135, the eldest daughter and one of the nine children ofGuitier of Rethel and Beatrix of Namur.^[3] Her father wasCount of Rethel from 1158 to 1171.

In 1151, Beatrice marriedRoger II of Sicily.^[3] She was queen for three years, until Roger's death on 26 February 1154.^[4] Beatrice was a little over three weeks pregnant at the time of his death, and their only child,Constance, was born the following November.^[3]

Beatrice survived her husband by thirty-one years but there is no record of her having married again. Her daughter Constance was confined to a monastery as a nun since childhood due a prophecy that "her marriage would destroy the kingdom". Beatrice lived long enough to see her betrothed in 1184. Constance became queen of Sicily in 1194.^[5]

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• 1130s births
• 1185 deaths
• Royal consorts of Sicily
• 12th-century French women
• 12th-century French nobility
• 12th-century Italian women
• 12th-century Italian nobility
• Hauteville family
• Roger II of Sicily
• Mothers of Sicilian monarchs

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• Year of birth uncertain