 Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Upper Lotharingia, married a wealthy widow, Beatrice of Tuscany, without the Emperor's consent.Henry III also outraged the Saxon duke, Bernard II, because he supported the duke's main rival, Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg, in the seizure of some Saxon counties.The Salian kings who inherited their Ottonian predecessors' domains in Saxony visited the province frequently.