Berengaria of Navarre

Berengaria of Navarre (Basque: Berengela, Spanish: Berenguela, French: Bérengère; c. 1165–1170 – 23 December 1230) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard I of England. She was the eldest daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile. As is the case with many of the medieval English queens, little is known of her life.

Berengaria has traditionally been known as "the only English queen never to set foot in the country." She may have in fact visited England after her husband's death, but did not do so before. Berengaria saw Richard very little during their marriage, which was childless. She did (unusually for the wife of a crusader) accompany him on the start of the Third Crusade, but mostly lived in his French possessions. There, she gave generously to the church, despite difficulties in collecting the pension she was due from Richard's brother and successor John after she became a widow.