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Dec 17, 2021 · In 1214, Berengaria of Portugal married Valdemar II, king of Denmark. How on earth would a medieval Portuguese princess and a Danish king meet, you might ask, but there was an indirect connection as Valdemar’s sister, Ingeborg, was unfortunate enough to marry Berengaria’s French cousin, Philippe Augustus. This is why Berengaria was in Paris ...
Queen consort of León. In order to help secure peace between Castile and León and by becoming a mediator between her father and her husband, [18] Berengaria married King Alfonso IX of León, her first cousin once removed, in Valladolid in 1197. [19]
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Berengaria was introduced to King Valdemar through his sister, Ingeborg, the wife of King Philip II of France, another of her cousins; she was by that time at the French court, having left Portugal with her brother Ferrante in 1212.
Dagmar, –1212, Valdemar Sejr's first queen, was a daughter of king Premysl Ottokar I of Bohemia and Adela of Meissen. Ottokar had been living in ab. 20 years of marriage to Adela, when he under the pretext of too close kinship applied for divorce (ab. 1198) and married Constantia of Hungary.
May 25, 2017 · On 12 May 1191, Richard and Berengaria were married at St George’s Chapel at Limassol, Cyprus. She was crowned Queen of England the same day at a ceremony officiated by the Archbishop of Bordeaux.
Feb 17, 2013 · She was brought from Navarre to Sicily by her future mother-in-law, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in 1190 to marry King Richard I of England. She was in her twenties at the time. Richard was in Sicily on his way to the Holy Land to join with the Third Crusade having taken the cross in 1187.
The details of Berengaria's betrothal to and subsequent, though much delayed, marriage to King Richard I the Lionheart of England have often been romanticized by chroniclers and later historians.
