King Richard ENGLAND, I

   Other names for Richard were AQUITAINE Duke, NORMANDY Duke, "Lion Hearted", ENGLAND King and "Coeur de Lion".

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-VQ.

   General Notes:

Coeur de Lion" or "Lion Hearted", Duke of AQUITAINE, Duke of NORMANDY, King of ENGLAND Reigned 1189-1199.

Not Married to Concubine I Richard I King of England.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1989: "Berenguela, Daughter of Sancho VI King of Navarre and Sancha Castilla, Mar Richard I King of England."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart,Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Berengaria Daughter of Sancho VI King of Navarre, Married Richard I."

The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams, Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XVII, p366:
"...Towards theend of the winter Queen Eleanor came to Sicily, bringing with her Berengaria, the daughter of the king of Navarre, whom Richard had earlier known and admired, and whom he had now decided to marry. Naturally Philip objected, since Richard had definitely promised to marry his sister Adela; but now he flatly refused to marry one of whose relations with his father evil stories were told..."
p367: "It was only on April 10, 1191, that Richard at last set sail on the real crusade. He sent on a little before him his intended bride, Berengaria, with his sister Joanna, the widowed queen of Sicily...In Cyprus Richard was married to Berengaria, and on June 5 he set sail for Acre, where he arrived on the 8th..."

A History of thePlantagenets, Vol I, The Conquering Family, Thomas B Costain, 1949, Doubleday & Co, p136:
"...Richard had decided to select his own wife. His choice, he told Eleanor, was Princess Berengaria of Navarre.
"His mother must have been shocked at this announcement. The new head of the Angevin empire could have any wife he desired. Why should he be content with the daughter of a third-rate king? What advantage would there be in an alliance with Navarre? But Richard's mind was madeup, and Eleanor loved him too well to stand in the way of his happiness. It was agreed that she would go to Pampeluna, the capital of Navarre, and see to the necessary arrangements.
p158: "It was while attending a tournament in Pampelunathat Richard first saw Berengaria. He was a guest at the royal palace and took an immediate interest in the young princess, who could not conceal the very great interest she took in him. The information available about Berengaria is quite meager, but it seems that she was small and dark. She had dusky hair which she parted in the middle so that it lay smoothly on her head, and her eyes were full of intelligence as well as gentleness. She read poetry and was more likely to be found alone in one of the palace gardens than gossiping with the young ladies of the court. The impression left of her is of a slender figure flitting about quickly and unobtrusively. She was diffident and even perhaps a triffle fey; the very oppositeof the earthy and magnificent Richard, although they shared one interest in common, a love of music.
"No reports have come down of this particular tournament, but only one assumption is possible about it: that Richard was the winner and itbecame his privilege, therefore, to select the Queen of Love...No other result is thinkable in view of what came about later.
"It is almost certain that he saw her once only. He did not correspond with her, not being a scholar, and beingcommitted, moreover, to marry Princess Alice of France. But clearly he had taken away the impression that, as it was his duty to marry the daughter of some royal family, he would find this reserved and oddly pretty little creature less objectionable than any other..."
p192: "It would be pleasant if it could be recorded that Berengaria's life flowed in easy courses after Richard's death, but unfortunately she continued the victim of fate's buffeting. Within a few weeks she lost her only sister Blanche and the friend who had stood by her in all her trials, the King's sister Joanna..."

The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes, Elizabeth Longford, 1991, Oxford Univ Press, pxix: "Normans and Plantagenets Genealogy: Berengaria of Navarre, mar Richard I The Lion Heart, died 1230."

A History of the English Speaking People Winston S Churchill Vol I The Birth of Britain Dodd Mead & Co 1956 p133 "...[Richard] had promised Philip of France to marry his sister Alice, aboutwhom, except for her looks, the tales were none too good. Philip claimed that Richard had tried to seduce her, and there was bad feeling between the monarchs. However that may be, after he rested for the winter, his mother brought out to him Berengaria, daughter of the King of Navarre, whom he had known and admired, and now resolved to marry. It was fitting that the `Lion-heart' should marry for love and not for policy, but the rejection of Alice prevented a tie between the Kings ofFrance and England which had been deemed essential to their comradship in the Crusade..."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p25: "Richard I Coeur de Lion 1157-99 mar Berengaria of Navarre 1163-1230..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol XV, p827, Richard I the Lion-Heart of England: "...Richard joined the other crusaders at Acre on 8 Jun 1191, having conquered Cyprus on his way there. While at Limassol in Cyprus, Richardmarried (May 12) Berengaria of Navarre...
"In striking contast with his father, and with King John, he was, there seems no doubt, a homosexual. He had no children by Queen Berengaria, with whom his relations seem to have been merely formal."

INTERNET
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Richard, King, I. "Richard the Lionheart" [body minus heart] b. 1157. d. 1199.
British Monarch. He reigned from 1189-1199. He only spent a few months in England during his reign. Most of his time was spent fighting the Crusades in the Holy Land. Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, France.
Richard, King, I. [Heart]
British Monarch.
Notre Dame Cathedral, Rouen, Normandy, France.

ANCESTAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.11 8XJ3-VQ Richard I "Coeur De Lion" King of ENGLAND Born 13 Sept 1157 Beaumont Palace Oxford Oxfordshire England Mar 12 May 1191 Berengaria Princess of NAVARRA 8XJ4-H0 Limassol Limassol Cyprus Died 6 Apr 1199 Chalus Haute-Vienne France Bur Fontevrault L'Ab Maine-Et-Loire France.

   Marriage Information:

Richard married Queen Berengaria Navarre ENGLAND, daughter of King Sancho NAVARRE, V and Queen Sancha Beatrice Castile NAVARRE, on 12 May 1191 in Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus. (Queen Berengaria Navarre ENGLAND was born in 1163, died about 1230-1231 and was buried in Espau, Navarre, Spain.)

   Marriage Information:

Richard also married Concubine I England Richard I.