![]() ![]() ![]() It was encrypted and painted on the ceiling of the Real Convento de Santa Clara, in Salamanca, Spain. Scholars Charo García de Arriba and Miguel Ángel Martín Mas have found where. Shortly before her death, Berengaria decided to write her eventful story. For example, the Duke of Rothenburg, fifth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, became engaged to her when she was only nine years old, but finally broke off the agreement when he learned that Berengaria had a new brother (Henry I), which meant that the German aristocrat lost his possible dynastic rights through marriage. A life, therefore, marked by the political and personal interests of others. Berengaria (known as Berenguela in Spanish) never got over the emotional and political blow that forced her to return to Castile and take refuge under the protection of her royal parents: Alfonso VIII, victor of the Battle of Navas de Tolosa, and Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, muse of the troubadours. ![]() The reason given was that the spouses were first cousins once removed. Queen Berengaria I of Castile (1180-1246) was also queen consort of the Kingdom of León by her marriage to Alfonso IX, but Pope Innocent III annulled the marriage seven years after the union and after five children had already been born. ![]()
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