. 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. Vi 322 BERENGARIA OF her attendants, her camp was fired: she escaped with difl&culty from the burning tents, niuch scorched and hurt. Unsub- dued by this accident, she hastened to lay her wrongs before her beloved brother, king Richard. She found he had just expired as she arrived
. 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. Vi 322 BERENGARIA OF her attendants, her camp was fired: she escaped with difl&culty from the burning tents, niuch scorched and hurt. Unsub- dued by this accident, she hastened to lay her wrongs before her beloved brother, king Richard. She found he had just expired as she arrived. The pains of premature child-bijth seized her as she heard the dire intelligence, and she sank under the double affliction of mental and corporeal agony. With her last breath she begged to be laid near her brother ; To Berengaria the request was made, and the cold remains of the royal brother and sister, the dearest objects of the sorrowing queen's affections, were laid, by her pious care, side by side, in the stately abbey of Fontevraud.' The heart of Richard was bequeathed by him to be buried in the cathedral of Rouen, where it has latety been exhumed, in 1842. AVhen the case was unclosed, the lion-heart was found entire, but withered to the consistency of a faded leaf,- The deaths of Richard and Joanna were immediately suc- ceeded by that of Berengaria's only sister, Blanche. This princess had been given in marriage by Coeur de Lion to his nephew and friend, the troubadour-prince Thibaut of Cham- pagne. The princess Blanche died the day after the birtli of a son, who afterwards was the heir both of Sauclio and Beren- garia, and finally king of Navarre. Thus, in the course of a few short weeks, was the queen of England bereft of all that were near and dear to her. The world had become a desert to Berengaria before she left it for a life of conventual seclusion, Queen Berengaria fixed her residence at Mans, where she held a great part of her foreign dower. Here
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