Berengaria of Navarre

Queen of England, Lord of Le Mans

Gabrielle Storey

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Routledge
03 June 2024

British & Irish history; Medieval history; Social & cultural history; Diplomacy

Series: Lives of Royal Women

Berengaria of Navarre was queen of England (1191–99) and lord of Le Mans (1204–30), but has received little attention in terms of a fully encompassing biography from Navarrese, Anglophone, and French perspectives. This book explores her political career whilst utilising the surviving documentation to demonstrate her personal and familial partnerships and life as a dowager queen.

This biography follows Berengaria’s journey from a Navarrese infanta, raised in the northern Iberian kingdom, to her travels across Europe to marriage and the Third Crusade, venturing through Sicily, Cyprus, and on to the Holy Land in 1191. Berengaria’s reign and early years as dowager queen are examined in the context of the Anglo-French conflict and domestic disputes, before her decision to negotiate with the king of France, Philip Augustus, and become lord of Le Mans, for which she is far better known in local memory.

The volume flows chronologically discussing her roles as infanta, queen, dowager, and lord, and is an ideal resource for scholars and those interested in the history of gender, queenship, lordship, and Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

By: Gabrielle Storey
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781032121482
ISBN 10: 1032121483
Series: Lives of Royal Women
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 03 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of medieval queenship, gender, and sexuality, specialising in co-rulership and Western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. She has published on the memory and representations of monarchy, and royal sexualities in journals and edited collections, and has co-edited two volumes on monarchy, memory, and sexualities.