Beatrice de Frangepan (1480 – c. 27 March 1510) was a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n noblewoman, a member of the Frankopan

Frankopan

The Frankopans are a Croatian noble family. Also called Frankapan, Frangepán in Hungarian, and Frangipani in Italian.The Frankopan family is the leading princely Croatian aristocratic family which dates back to the 12th Century and even earlier to Roman times...

 family that lived in the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

. By marriage Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and heiress of Hunyad Castle

Hunyad Castle

The Huniad Castle is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara , present-day Romania.- History :...

 as the wife of John Corvinus, the illegitimate son of the King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

Life

Beatrice was a daughter of Bernardin Frankopan, Knyaz (Prince)

Knyaz

Kniaz, knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....

 of Krk

Krk

Krk is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county....

 and Modruš

Modruš

Modruš is a village in the mountainous part of Croatia, located south of Josipdol. The population is 197 .This now small village is historically noted as the seat of one of the medieval Catholic bishoprics, established in 1185 in Krbava and moved to Modruš in the 1460s. It later became the Roman...

 (1453–1529) from his marriage to Donna Luisa Marzano d'Aragona, daughter of Giovanni Francesco Mariano, Prince of Squillace. Her brother Christoph Frankopan

Christoph Frankopan

Christoph Frankopans Brinjski, Croatian: Krsto Frankopan Brinjski, Hungarian: Frangepán Kristóf, Frankapan, Frangipani was a Croatian count from the noble House of Frankopan and ban of the region of Croatia in the Hungarian Medieval Kingdom in 1527 under the reign of the King John I of Hungary.-...

 (1482–1527) was Ban of Croatia

Ban of Croatia

Ban of Croatia was the title of local rulers and after 1102 viceroys of Croatia. From earliest periods of Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by Bans as a rulers representative and supreme military commander. In the 18th century, Croatian bans eventually become chief government officials in...

 under the reign of the King John I of Hungary.

Beatrice first married in 1496 to John Corvinus (1473–1504), an illegitimate son of the King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with whom she had two children:

• Elisabeth (1496–1508)
• Christoph (1499–1505), the last of the House of Hunyadi Corvinus

She was described as extremely beautiful and after her husband's death she inherited
Hunyad Castle

Hunyad Castle

The Huniad Castle is a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Hunedoara , present-day Romania.- History :...

 and she administered her children's estate. However, they both died young (probably poisoned), soon after their father. After the mourning period, King Vladislas II of Hungary had her married to his nephew Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.- Early life :...

 (1484–1543) on 21 January 1509 in Gyula

Gyula

Gyula was, according to Muslim and Byzantine sources, the title of one of the leaders, the second in rank, of the Hungarian tribal federation in the 9th-10th centuries. In the earliest Hungarian sources, the title name is only recorded as a personal name...

. King Vladislav transferred all of the Corvinus property to George. Apart from Hunyad Castle, this included, among others, the fortress of Lipova

Lipova, Arad

Lipova is a town in Romania, Arad County, located in the Banat region of western Transylvania. It is situated at a distance of 34 km from Arad, the county capital, at the contact zone of the Mureș River with the Zarand Mountains, Western Plateau and Lipovei Hills...

 with 252 villages.
Through his wife, George became one of the most powerful landowners in Hungary. Parts of the Bibliotheca Corviniana

Bibliotheca Corviniana

Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world, established by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Croatia between 1458 and 1490.-History:...

 ended up in Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Oker river about 13 kilometres south of Brunswick. It is the seat of the District of Wolfenbüttel and of the bishop of the Protestant Lutheran State Church of Brunswick...

, due to Beatrice for Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Oker river about 13 kilometres south of Brunswick. It is the seat of the District of Wolfenbüttel and of the bishop of the Protestant Lutheran State Church of Brunswick...

.

After Beatrice's death, a year after the marriage, George sold the bulk of the Hungarian possessions and purchased estates in Silesia instead.