Editing Berengaria of Navarre (section)

==Queen consort==
[[File:Charles Allston Collins - Berengaria's Alarm for the Safety of her Husband, Richard Coeur de Lion.JPG|thumb|upright=1.4|''Berengaria's Alarm for the Safety of Her Husband, Richard Coeur de Lion, Awakened by the Sight of His Girdle Offered for Sale at Rome'' ([[Charles Allston Collins]], 1850)]]
Whether the marriage was ever even consummated is a matter for conjecture. In any case, Richard certainly took his new wife with him for the first part of the [[Third Crusade]]. This was unusual (although Richard's mother and Berengaria's predecessor, [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]], had, when [[queen of France]], been with her husband throughout the [[Second Crusade]]). Berengaria returned well before Richard left the [[Holy Land]]; on his return to Europe, he was captured and imprisoned. Berengaria remained in Europe, based at [[Beaufort-en-Vallée]], attempting to raise money for his ransom. 

After his release, Richard returned to England and was not joined by his wife. Richard then set about reclaiming the territories in France that had been lost by his brother [[John, King of England|John]] or taken by King [[Philip II of France|Philip II]]. His focus was on his kingdom, not his queen. He was ordered by [[Pope Celestine III]] to reunite with Queen Berengaria and to show fidelity to her in the future. Richard, now mostly spending his time in France, obeyed and took Berengaria to church every week thereafter. When he died in 1199, she was distressed, perhaps more so at deliberately being overlooked as queen of England. Some historians believe that Berengaria honestly loved her husband, and Richard's feelings for her were merely formal because the marriage was a political rather than a romantic union.