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Individual:
Berengaria (circa 1165-1230), queen consort of King Richard I of England.
She was the daughter of Sancho VI, king of Navarre (1132?-94), and was
betrothed to Richard shortly after his accession to the English throne in
1189. She joined him in Reggio, 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.
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