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Le Mans
Le Mans , city (1990 pop. 148,465), capital of Sarthe dept., NW France, on the Sarthe River. The historical capital of Maine, it is also an important manufacturing, commercial, educational, and communications center. Its service industries, especially insurance, are important. Le Mans, which dates f... Read more
Richard I
Richard I   Richard Cœur de Lion , or Richard Lion-Heart, 1157-99, king of England (1189-99); third son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine . Although enthroned as duke of Aquitaine in 1172, he was, like his brothers Henry and Geoffrey, discontented with his lack of authority an... Read more

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Berengaria
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History Berengaria ( c. 1164/5– c. 1230...The daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre, Berengaria was married to Richard in an alliance...On her journey to the Holy Land, Berengaria was shipwrecked off Cyprus and threatened...
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...property. She arranged his coronation, and in the winter of 1190/1191 she traveled to Navarre to fetch his future wife, Berengaria, and escorted her to Sicily to join Richard before he left for Palestine. During his absence she worked with the Council...
Richard I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Richard set out (1190) on the Third Crusade (see Crusades ). En route he captured Messina and Cyprus and married (1191) Berengaria of Navarre. With Philip II of France, he stormed Acre. Philip then returned to France, where he began plotting against...
Le Mans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...battles throughout its history. The Cathedral of St. Julien du Mans (11th-13th cent.), which contains the tomb of Berengaria, queen of Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard I of England), is partly Romanesque; its Gothic part has perhaps the...
Limassol
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Bay. It is a district administrative center, a port, and a resort. Wine and agricultural goods are exported. Chrome and asbestos are mined in the district. At Limassol, in 1191, Richard I of England married Berengaria of Navarre.

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Berengaria
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History Berengaria ( c. 1164/5– c. 1230...The daughter of Sancho VI of Navarre, Berengaria was married to Richard while he was...On her journey to the Holy Land, Berengaria was shipwrecked off Cyprus and threatened...
Young, Loretta
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Shanghai (Flood) (as Barbara Howard); Call of the Wild (Wellman) (as Claire Blake); The Crusades (DeMille) (as Berengaria) 1936 The Unguarded Hour (Wood) (as Lady Helen Dearden); Private Number (Del Ruth) (as Ellen Neal); Ramona (King...

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Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart...simple task, and this new biography of Berengaria is no exception to the general rule...are clear: in her reconstruction of Berengaria's life she seeks "to look again at...
Busmen pray for a route to greater glory; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 6/15/2002; 700+ words ; ...Did Richard The Lionheart's wife, Berengaria of Navarre, join him on his Crusades...she do after her husband's death? BERENGARIA (c.1163-1230) was Princess of...tournament held by her father. In 1187 Berengaria travelled from Navarre to Sicily to...
Last word in luxury; Maritime TALES.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 4/8/2006; 700+ words ; ...Liverpool. Her name was changed to Berengaria after the wife of England's Richard the Lionheart. Berengaria regularly sailed between Southampton...1938. There are two models of the Berengaria in Merseyside Maritime Museum. A small...
See the light: Why there's more to Le Mans than fast cars
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 8/7/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...to one of England's loneliest queens, Berengaria, wife of Richard the Lionheart. Berengaria, married off for political expediency...for his neglect of his wife. The trace of Berengaria can still be seen in Le Mans; her ghost...
The people you meet; from Norfolk to Key West, befriending other passage-makers can enliven those long stretches of the Intracoastal Waterway. (column)
Magazine article from: Yachting; 9/1/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...the hook of our 34' pilothouse ketch Berengaria in the basin at the end of Pines Canal...of the Chesapeake, poking along at Berengaria's agonizingly slow average speed of...friendship between the people aboard Berengaria and Morning Watch, which continues...
Piece of Tyne history is sold for pounds 85.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 12/18/2008; 523 words ; ...Two cast iron beds from the liner Berengaria, which was broken up at Jarrow in 1939...line, which changed her name to the Berengaria, with the ship being converted from...Tyne-built Mauretania and Aquitania. Berengaria remained one of the most beautiful and...
LETTERS
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/2/2000; 700+ words ; ...Berengeria for whom Cather's ship was named was probably Berengaria of Navarre, the wife of Richard the First of England (Richard...will eventually detail how much Cather knew about the life of Berengaria, and whether it had a special significance for her. SIDNEY...
Mediterranean Islands: Lost in time Travel around Northern Cyprus and you'll discover an Italianate landscape with an English past
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/4/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...in 1191, Richard the Lion-Heart arrived to rescue his fiancee, Berengaria of Navarre, whose ship had been blown off course. At Limassol, they were married and Berengaria was crowned Queen of England. Richard took Nicosia, Kyrenia and...
Obituary: Helen de Freitas
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/17/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...founded by Quakers in Pennsylvania. She then sailed in the SS Berengaria on her way to the Soviet Union to study the Moscow theatre...Hawks Club. His chance encounter with Helen Bell aboard the Berengaria was a most happy one. They were married two years later...
Mother and baby fine. Father knackered New mum Patsy Kensit is full of the joys of spring. New dad Liam looks like he's been hit by a juggernaut. NICK COLEMAN knows why
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/31/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...balloon goes up. I'm asleep, dreaming about my beautiful Berengaria-to-be, and am stroked awake by a piously calm wife at...overwrought and shaky. I also find that it's not little Berengaria but little Tommy and that his knob is much bigger than mine...