Berengária af Portugal, Queen of Denmark (1194-1221)
1194--1221-03-27 (kvinna)
Begravningsort: Ringsted Church, Ringsted, Region Zealand, Denmark
Född: 1194
Död: 27 mars 1221 in Ringsted, Region Zealand, Denmark
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Daughter of Sancho I o Povoador, rei de Portugal och Dulce de Aragão, rainha-consorte de Portugal
Wife of Valdemar II Valdemarsen af Danmark, Konge af Danmark
Mother of Erik IV Plovpenning, Konge af Danmark; Sophie Valdemardatter; Abel Valdemarsen, Konge af Danmark och Christoffer I, Konge af Danmark
Sister of Teresa de Portugal, reina consorte de León; Sancha de Portugal, abadessa do Lorvão; Raimundo, infante de Portugal; Constança, infanta de Portugal; Afonso II o Gordo, rei de Portugal; Pere de Portugal, comte d'Urgell; Ferrand de Portugal, comte de Flandre; Henrique, infante de Portugal; Branca de Portugal, senhora de Guadalajara och Mafalda de Portugal, reina consorte de Castilla « färre
Half sister of Teresa Sanches de Portugal; Nunho Sanches de Portugal; Gil Sanches de Portugal; Rodrigo Sanches de Portugal; Constança de Portugal; Mayor Sanches de Portugal; Martim Sanches de Portugal, I conde de Trastámara och Urraca Sanches de Portugal
Alt birth years: 1190, 1192
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Infanta Berengária of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [bɨɾẽˈɡaɾiɐ]) was a Portuguese infanta (princess), later Queen consort of Denmark. She was the fifth daughter of Portuguese King Sancho I and Dulce Berenguer. She married Danish King Valdemar II and was the mother of Danish kings Eric IV, Abel and Christopher I.
Berengaria was first cousin to Queen Berengaria of England, wife of Richard the Lion-hearted. Both of the Princess Beregarias were named after their grandfather Count Berenguer of Barcelona. Princess Berengaria was introduced to King Valdemar through his sister, Ingeborg, the wife of King Phillip Auguste of France, another of her cousins. Berengaria was the youngest daughter of King Sancho I of Portugal. Valdemar’s first wife, Princess Margrethe of Bohemia, later known as Dronning Dagmar Queen Dagmar, had been immensely popular, blond and with Nordic looks. Queen Berengaria was the opposite, dark-eyed, raven haired, yet a beauty in her own right. The Danes made up folk songs about the beautiful new queen and blamed her for the high taxes Valdemar levied, although the taxes went to his war efforts, not just to his Queen. The Danes still grieved over the kind-hearted Queen Dagmar, so that it wasn't easy for the new queen from Portugal to win good-will with her husband's Danish subjects.
During his years married to Queen Berengaria, in 1219, Valdemar went on a victorious campaign to Estonia, during which legend has it that the Danish flag first appeared, falling from the heavens, inspiring victory for the Danish forces.
Queen Berengaria, after giving birth to three future kings, died in childbirth in 1221, in her 31st year. Queen Berengaria is buried in Saint Bendt's Church in Ringsted, Denmark, on one side of Valdemar II, with Queen Dagmar buried on the other side of the King. |  |
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