Richard I's Consort: Berengaria of Navarre

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Berengaria of Navarre is mainly remembered for just one thing: being a Queen of England who never set foot in England, at least not as Queen. But all that is about to change as Dr Gabrielle Storey's forthcoming biography of Berengaria is set to shed more light on this neglected, English Queen Consort.

In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis finds out more from Gabrielle about this fascinating woman.

This episode was edited by Tean Stewart-Murray and produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:59.0	Beringaria of Navarre is usually known for one thing, being a Queen of England who never set foot in England, at least not as Queen.
1:07.0	But all that is about to change as Dr. Gabby's story's biography of Beringaria is set to shed more light on this neglected consort.
1:15.0	Welcome to Gond Medieval Gabi.
1:16.4	It's great to have you here.
1:17.4	Thank you very much for having me delighted to be here.
1:20.0	I'm very interested to learn a bit more about Beringaria.
1:22.4	She's such an elusive kind of figure, I think, in most people's minds.
1:26.0	To start off with, where is Beringaria from? So what does the of-Nervar bit mean? Where is Navar and how important is Navarre at this time?
1:33.4	So Iberian that is Spain and Portugal aren't that familiar to most of us.
1:38.8	So Navarre's in the northeast of what is now modern day Spain and this time it's surrounded by a series of Iberian
1:46.2	Kingdom so you do have early Portugal you've got Aragon and Castile which might be more familiar to
1:52.1	people who have done later medieval history. and you've also got the county of Barcelona nearby as well and
1:59.4	Nava is important because where it is on the north piece it's almost a butting aquate in between this place called the Spanish March and Navarre is important because it's actually got a history of being quite a powerful kingdom in its own right.
2:15.3	During the reign of Beringeria's father, Sancho the 6th, the kingdom of Pamplona becomes a kingdom of Navarre.
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