"Beatrice: From the latin, beatrix, 'bearer of hapiness and blessings'. Popular in the middle ages as the unattainable heroine who personified love in Dante's epic poem, La Divina Commedia (c. 1300). Later, the witty character in Skakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1598-9). The name the fell out of use, to be revived by the pre-Raphaelite Movement of the 19th century when it also aquired royal overtones as that of Queen Victoria's ninth and last child (born 1854). Beatrix Potter (18866-1943) wrote and created the characters Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher and Sqirrel Nutkin. Variants: Bea, ...,Beat, ..., Beatrijs,..."
Beatrijs is the Dutch or Flemish version on the name. In the Catholic tradition, Bea's Saint's Day is the 29 July.
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