Berengaria of Navarre Queen Consort of England ¹

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Berengaria of Navarre (Basque: Berengela, Spanish: Berenguela, French: Bérengère; c. 1165\endash 1170 \endash 23 December 1230) was queen of England as the wife of Richard I of England. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile. As is the case with many of the medieval English queens, relatively little is known of her life.

Traditionally known as "the only English queen never to set foot in the country", she may in fact have visited the country after her husband's death, but did not do so before, nor did she see much of him during her marriage, which was childless. She did (unusually for the wife of a Crusader) accompany him on the start of the Third Crusade, but mostly lived in his French possessions, where she gave generously to the church, despite difficulties in collecting the pension she was due from Richard's brother and successor John after she became a widow.

Berengaria married Richard Plantagenet King of England, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes,, son of Henry "Curtmantle" Plantagenet II, King of England, Duke of Normandy Aquitaine and Gascony Count of Nantes Lord of Ireland and Eleanor Queen Consort of France and England Duchess of Aquitaine, on 12 May 1191 in Chapel of St. George at Limassol on Cyprus. (Richard Plantagenet King of England, Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, was born on 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England and died on 6 Apr 1199 in Châlus, Duchy of Aquitaine.)