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Personal data Berengaria OF PORTUGAL 

• She was born about 1195.
• Title: Queen consort of Denmark
• Profession: Queen.
• She died about 1221.
• She is buried in St. Bendt's Church, Ringsted, Denmark.
• A child of Sancho I OF PORTUGAL and Dulce OF ARAGON

Household of Berengaria OF PORTUGAL

She is married to Valdemar II OF DENMARK.

They got married in the year 1214.

Child(ren):

1. Eric IV OF DENMARK  1216-1250 
2. Abel OF DENMARK  1218-1252 
3. Christopher I OF DENMARK  1219-1259 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Berengaria OF PORTUGAL

Berengaria of Portugal (Danish:Bengjerd) (1190s-1221), was a Portuguese infanta, later Queen consort of Denmark. She was the fifth daughter of Portuguese King Sancho I and Dulce of Aragon. She married Danish King Valdemar II and was the mother of Danish kings Eric IV, Abel and Christopher I.

Berengaria was the tenth of eleven children born to her parents. By the age of seventeen in 1212, Berengaria was an orphan, her father died in 1212 and her mother had died in 1198.

Berengaria was introduced to King Valdemar through his sister, Inegborg, the wife of King Philip II of France, another of her cousins; she was by that time at the French court, having left Portugal with her brother Ferrante in 1211.

Within seven years of marriage, the couple had four surviving children:
Eric IV of Denmark (1216-1250), King of the Danes (1241-1250)
Abel of Denmark (1218-1252), King of the Danes (1250-1252)
Christopher I of Denmark (1219-1259), King of the Danes (1252-1259)
Sophie (1217-1247), married John I, Margrave of Brandenburg, had issue

Valdemar’s first wife, Dagmar of Bohemia, had been immensely popular, blonde and with Nordic looks. Queen Berengaria was the opposite, described as a dark-eyed, raven haired beauty. She was, however, also described as hard-hearted, which made her generally unpopular in Denmark.

The Danes made up folk songs about Berengaria and blamed her for the high taxes Valdemar levied, although the taxes went to his war efforts, not just to his Queen. The great popularity of the former queen made it difficult for the new queen to gain popularity in Denmark as queen. She is noted to have made donations to churches and convents. Berengaria was the first Danish queen known to have worn a crown, which is mentioned in the inventory of her possessions (1225).

In 1221 Berengaria, after giving birth to three future kings, died in childbirth. Queen Berengaria is buried in St. Bendt's Church in Ringsted, Denmark, on one side of Valdemar II, with Queen Dagmar buried on the other side of the King.

Legacy
Valdemar's two queens play a prominent role in Danish ballads and myths - Dagmar as the soft, pious and popular ideal wife and Berengaria (Bengjerd) as the beautiful and haughty woman.

Source: Wikipedia

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