Berengaria of Navarre: The Absent Queen

By E L Hunter

In 1191, in the middle of the Third Crusade, Berengaria of Navarre married the most celebrated soldier of the age. She had crossed the Alps in winter and half the Mediterranean to reach him, and was crowned Queen of England on the island of Cyprus, a thousand miles from the kingdom she would never see. Within a few years Richard was away at his wars, then locked in a German prison, and the marriage had all but ended. She bore him no child. When the Lionheart died, history quietly filed her away under his name and left her there for eight hundred years.

The Absent Queen recovers the woman behind the footnote. Denied her dower by a treacherous King John, she fought two kings of England for thirty years, made herself the ruler of a French city, and raised the abbey where she still lies beneath a crown of stone. From the little the powerful thought worth keeping, a single charter, a lost seal, a battered tomb, this book cuts through eight centuries of myth and neglect to find the real Berengaria.

It is the story of the queen Richard the Lionheart left behind, and a fresh portrait of what medieval queenship truly was.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJMC7P45
• ISBN13: 9798173458971
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"