. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 296. BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE. "i: %' father placed him at liberty to demand her hand. Richard had another motive for his extreme desire for this alliance; he considered that his beloved mother, queen Eleanora, was deeply indebted to king Sancho, the father of Berengaria, because he had plead
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 296. BERENGARIA OF NAVARRE. "i: %' father placed him at liberty to demand her hand. Richard had another motive for his extreme desire for this alliance; he considered that his beloved mother, queen Eleanora, was deeply indebted to king Sancho, the father of Berengaria, because he had pleaded her cause with Henry II., and obtained some ameUoratiou of her imprisonment. Soon after 1 <;hard ascended the EngHsh throne, he sent his mother, queen Eleanora, to the court of her friend Sanclio the Wise, to demand the princess Berengaria in marriage; "for," says Vinisauf, "he had long loved the elegant ; Sancho the Wise not only received the proposition with joy, but entrusted Beiengaria to the care of queen Eleanora. The royal ladies travelled from the 30urt rf Navarre together across Italy to Naples,' where they found the ships belonging to Eleanora had arrived in the bay. But etiquette forbade Berengaria to approach her lover tiU he was free from the claims of Alice; therefore she sojourned with queen Eieanora at Brindisi, m the spring of 1191, waiting the message from king Richard, annomicing that he was free to receive the hand of the princess of Navarre. It was at Messina that the question of the engagement b'^een the princess Alice and the king of England was debu. d with Philip Augustus, her brother; and more than once, the potentates assembled for the crusade expected that the forces of France and England would be called into action, to decide the right of king Richard to give his hand to another lady than the sister of the king of France. The rhymes of Piers of Langtoft recapitulate these events with brevity and quaintness:—• "
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