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Beatrice (/ ˈ b iː (ə) t r ɪ s / BEE-(ə-)triss, Italian: [beaˈtriːtʃe]) [1] is a female given name. The English variant is derived from the French Béatrice , which came from the Latin Beatrix , which means "blessed one".
Beatrice of Nazareth (Dutch: Beatrijs van Nazareth; c. 1200 – 1268), [2] also known as Beatrice of Tienen, was a Flemish Cistercian nun, visionary and mystic.Remembered chiefly through a medieval adaptation of her writings, of which the originals are now mostly lost, she is venerated as Blessed by the Catholic Church.
Beatrice was born in what is now northeastern France around 1020. [1] She was also known as Beatrice of Tuscany or Beatrice of Canossa. [2]After her father Duke Frederick II of Upper Lorraine died in 1026, she and her sister Sophie went to live with their mother's sister, Empress Gisela at the imperial court.
Here are 80 unique biblical names for baby boys and girls. Options for biblical girl names and biblical boy names abound.
Names play a variety of roles in the Bible.They sometimes relate to the nominee's role in a biblical narrative, as in the case of Nabal, a foolish man whose name means "fool". [1]
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
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Saint Beatrice may refer to: Beatrice or Beatrix, 4th-century martyr - see Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix;