Beatrix facts for kids

Beatrix is a feminine given name, most likely derived from Viatrix, a feminine form of the Late Latin name Viator which meant "voyager, traveller" and later influenced in spelling by association with the Latin word beatus or "blessed". It is pronounced in British English and the same or in North American English. Another North American English pronunciation however approximates that of most other languages: BAY-ə-triks, as shown by US dictionary entries for the former queen of the Netherlands.

Common forms of this name include Beatrice in English and Italian, Béatrice in French, Beatriz in Spanish and Portuguese, Beate in German, and Beata in Polish and Swedish. Common short forms are Bea and Trixie. See Beatrice (given name) for other derivatives.

People

Queens

• Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1938), queen regnant from 1980–2013

See Queen Beatrix (disambiguation) for a list of queens consort

Saints

• Saint Beatrix (died ca. 303), Christian martyr, in older sources named Viatrix ("the traveler").
• Blessed Beatrix d'Este (1192–1226), Italian Benedictine nun
• Saint Beatrix d'Este (1226?-1262), Italian Benedictine nun, niece of above
• Blessed Beatrix or Beatrix of Nazareth (1200–1268), Flemish Cistercian nun, mystic and author
• Beatrix d'Ornacieux (c.1240-c.1306/9), French Carthusian nun
• Beatrix da Silva (1424–1492), Portuguese Franciscan nun

Nobility

• Beatrix of Bar (c.1017 – 1076), marchioness of Tuscany
• Béatrix I of Bigorre
• Beatrix of Franconia (1037–1061), German Abbess and daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Henry III
• Beatrix de Vesci, (died c. 1125), Anglo-Norman noble
• Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1148–1184), Holy Roman Empress
• Beatrix of Swabia (1198–1212), Holy Roman Empress
• Beatrix de Courtenay (died 1245), Countess of Edessa
• Beatrix of Andechs-Merania (1210–1271), German noble
• Beatrix of Brabant (1225–1288), Countess of Flanders
• Beatrix of Bohemia (1225–1290), wife of Otto III of Brandenburg
• Beatrix of Champagne (1242–1295), Duchess Consort of Burgundy
• Beatrix of Falkenburg (1254–1277), queen consort of the Romans
• Beatrix of Brandenburg (d. 1314), wife of Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg
• Beatrix of Brandenburg (1270–1316), mother of Beatrix of Silesia
• Beatrix of Silesia (1290–1322), queen consort of the Romans
• Beatrix of Luxembourg (1305–1319), Queen consort of Hungary
• Beatrix of Bavaria (1344–1359), Queen consort of Sweden
• Beatrix of Nuremberg (c.1362 – 1414), Duchess of Austria
• Beatrix of Aragon (1457–1508), Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia
• Beatrix of Baden (1492–1535), Margravine of Baden
• Beatrix, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau (1930–2021), Countess consort of Schönburg-Glauchau

Given name

• Beatrix Balogh (b. 1974), Hungarian handball player
• Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (1877–1953), English peer
• Béatrix Beck (1914–2008), French writer
• Beatrix Borchard (born 1950), German musicologist and author
• Beatrix Boulsevicz (b. 1987), Hungarian swimmer
• Beatrix Campbell (b. 1947), British journalist and author
• Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville (1729–1794), French salonnière and bibliophile
• Beatrix Christian, Australian playwright and screenwriter
• Béatrix de Cusance (1614–1663), Duchess of Lorraine
• Beatrix Dobie (1887-1945), New Zealand landscape artist
• Beatrix D'Souza (b. 1935), Indian politician and social worker
• Béatrix Dussane (1888–1969), French stage actress
• Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), American landscape gardener and landscape architect
• Beatrix Galindo (c.1465–1534), Spanish physician and educator
• Beatrix Hamburg (1923–2018), American psychiatrist
• Beatrix Havergal (1901–1980), English horticulturist
• Beatrix Holéczy (born 1972), Hungarian biathlete
• Beatrix von Holte (1250–1327), German abbess
• Beatrix Hoyt (1880–1963), American golfing champion
• Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872–1959), American landscape architect
• Beatrix Kisházi (b. 1946), Hungarian table tennis player
• Beatrix Kökény (b. 1969), Hungarian handball player
• Béatrix La Palme (1878–1921), Canadian soprano and violinist
• Beatrix Lambton, Countess of Durham (1859–1937), British peer
• Beatrix Lehmann (1903–1979), British actress, theatre director and author
• Beatrix Leslie (c.1577-1661), Scottish midwife executed for witchcraft
• Beatrix Loughran (1900–1975), American figure skater
• Beatrix Lyall (1873–1948), British social reformer and politician
• Beatrix Mahlknecht, Italian luger
• Beatrix Waring McCay (1901–1972), Australian barrister
• Béatrix Midant-Reynes, French Egyptologist
• Beatrix Miller (1923–2014), British editor of Queen and Vogue magazines
• Beatrix Müllner (b. 1970), Austrian synchronized swimmer
• Beatrix Ong (b. 1976), British luxury goods designer
• Beatrix Maud Palmer (1858–1950), British political and women's rights activist
• Beatrix Pesek, Hungarian ten-pin bowler
• Beatrix Potter (1866–1943), English illustrator, author and conservationist
• Beatrix Rechner (born 1951), Swiss high jumper
• Beatrix de Rijk (1883–1958), Dutch aviator
• Beatrix de Rijke (1421–1468), Dutch foundling
• Beatrix Ruf (b. 1960), German art curator
• Beatrix Schröer (b. 1963), German rower
• Beatrix Schuba (b. 1951), Austrian figure skater
• Beatrix Sherman (1894–1975), American silhouette artist
• Beatrix von Storch (b. 1971), German politician
• Beatrix Tóth (b. 1967), Hungarian handball player

Surname

• Jean-Guillaume Béatrix (b. 1988), French biathlete

Fictional characters

• Beatrix, mother of the legendary Knight of the Swan
• Beatrix Cenci, protagonist of an opera based on the Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599)
• Beatrix Kiddo, the protagonist of the Kill Bill films.
• Beatrix MacMillan, Doctor Who companion
• Béatrix de Rochefide, the protagonist of Balzac's novel Béatrix.
• Beatrix "Trixie" Belden, title character in a series of 'girl detective' mysteries
• General Beatrix, a character in the video game Final Fantasy IX.
• Beatrix "Trixie" Franklin, nurse and midwife from Call the Midwife
• Beatrix, one of the main character from Netflix Original Series Fate: The Winx Saga

Other

• 83 Beatrix, a large asteroid in the inner part of the main asteroid belt
• Beata Beatrix, 1870 painting of Dante's Beatrice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• BeatrIX, a Linux operating system in 2004/5
• Béatrix, 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac.
• Beatrix Gold Mine, South African gold mine owned by Gold Fields
• Sainte-Béatrix, Quebec, a municipality in Canada
• Beatrix, a song by Cocteau Twins on their 1984 album Treasure

See also

In Spanish: Beatrix para niños