Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d. 1230).

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Berengaria, Queen of Richard I (d. 1230). She holds a prayer book and wears an alms purse (aumoniere) on her girdle. From the remains of her tomb in the Abbey of l'Epau (l'Espan) near Le Mans. Handcolored engraving from "Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period" drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin, London, Henry Bohn, 1842. The costumes were drawn from tapestries, monumental effigies, illuminated manuscripts. Charles and Leopold Martin were the sons of the romantic artist and mezzotint engraver John Martin (1789-1854).

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