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Their sister Beatrix had the bodies drawn out of the water and buried. [1] Beatrix is thought to be a manuscript corruption of the name "Viatrix". [2] [3] Then for seven months she lived with a pious woman named Lucina and together they secretly helped persecuted Christians. [4] Finally she was discovered and arrested.
Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.. It first appeared in the periodical Le Siècle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form the same year.
Beatrix was a great-granddaughter of the Hungarian statesman Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her parents divorced in 1931, a year after her birth. During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 , Beatrix and her family fled to Germany in order to escape the Communist regime.
The Comtessa de Dia (Countess of Die), [1] possibly named Beatritz or Isoarda (fl. c. 1175 or c. 1212), was a trobairitz (female troubadour).. She is only known as the comtessa de Dia in contemporary documents, but was most likely the daughter of Count Isoard II of Diá (a town northeast of Montelimar now known as Die in southern France).
Beatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari [1] (Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe portiˈnaːri]; 1265 – 8 or 19 June 1290) was an Italian woman who has been commonly identified as the principal inspiration for Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova, and is also identified with the Beatrice who acts as his guide in the last book of his narrative poem the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), Paradiso, and during the ...
Beatrice of Falkenburg (c. 1254 – 17 October 1277), also referred to as Beatrix of Valkenburg, was the third spouse of Richard of Cornwall, and as such nominally queen of Germany. She was 15 years old when she married the 60-year-old English prince, who proved to be a very devoted husband.
Beatrix was inaugurated as queen of the Netherlands in a solemn session of the States General of the Netherlands in the Nieuwe Kerk. During the ceremony, she took his oath of office and swore to uphold the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Constitution of the Netherlands. Following Beatrix's swearing-in, members of the States ...
Beatrix of Sicily or Beatrice di Sicilia (Palermo, 1260 – Marquisate of Saluzzo, 1307) was a Sicilian princess. In 1296 she became Marchioness consort of Saluzzo. Beatrix was the daughter of Manfred of Sicily and his wife Helena Angelina Doukaina. [1]