Berengaria of Navarre [8370] ²⁴

  General Notes:

After the death of King Richard she fixed her residence
at Mans, in Orleannois, and passed her latter years in pious retirement within
the walls of the Abbey of L'Espan, which she had founded.
Some sources say she was born after 1170.
It is said that she never visited England, but this is untrue.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• Acceded, 12 May 1191, Chapel of St George, Limasol, Cyprus.

Berengaria married Richard I Plantagenet Count De Lion, King of England [3911] [MRIN: 3431], son of Fitzempress Henry II Curtmantle King of England [2565] [9H8V-L97] and Eleanor of Aquitaine Duchess of Aquitaine [2564] [9CMK-Z62], on 12 May 1191 in Chapel of St George, Limasol, Cyprus to. (Richard I Plantagenet Count De Lion, King of England [3911] was born on 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England, died on 6 Apr 1199 in Chalus, Limousin, France and was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, France.). The cause of his death was killed during the siege of a French castle.