General Notes

Berengaria (1165?-1230), queen consort of King Richard I of England. She was
the daughter of Sancho VI, king of Navarre, and was betrothed to Richard
shortly after his accession to the English throne in 1189. She joined him in
Italy in 1191, while he was traveling to Palestine on the Third Crusade, and
they were married later the same year in Limassol, Cyprus. From 1191 to 1192,
while Richard campaigned against the Saracens, she lived in Acre in Palestine,
and from 1192 to 1194, while he was a prisoner in Germany, she lived in Poitou
(now in France). After Richard's release from captivity the couple appear to
have become estranged, and modern historians agree that they were probably
never reunited. After Richard's death in 1199, Berengaria spent most of her
last years in Le Mans, France, where she died.