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Berengaria

Type Figure Region Navarre Time c. 1165–1230 Also known as Queen Berengaria of England

Daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre, she married Richard I of England in Cyprus in 1191, nominally queen of England;…

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  1. c. 1165–1191Pamplona · NavarreDaughter of Sancho VI and Sancha of Castile, she grew up at the Navarrese court; around 1190 a diplomatic marriage proposal tied her to Crusader politics, making her a link between England, France and Iberia.
  2. 1191–1199Limassol · CyprusShe married Richard I in Cyprus on 12 May 1191 and followed the Third Crusade to the Levant; while Richard was imprisoned she raised ransom funds, and after his release in 1194 she mostly stayed in Aquitaine and Poitou, never entering England as queen.
  3. 1199–1230Le Mans · MaineAfter Richard's death in 1199 she took part as queen mother in John's struggle with Philip II of France over Aquitaine, and maintained ties with Navarre and the papacy; from the 1220s she lived near the Cistercian abbey of Le Puy, dying at Le Mans in 1230 and being buried there.

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