BURKE'S ESTIMATE OF QUEEN BERENGARIA Ferdinand's mother, Berengaria [who died in 1246], was one of those rare beings who seen! to have been born to do right, and to have done it. From her earliest youth she was a leading figure, a happy and noble influence in one of the most contemptible and detestable societies of medieval Christendom» Married of her own free will to a stranger and an enemy, that she might bring peace to two kingdoms, she was ever a true and loyal wife; unWedded by ecclesiastical tyranny in the very floWerof her young woman*· hood, she was ever a faithful daughter of the church ; inheriting a crown H. W. — VOL. X. F 66 THE HISTORY OF SPAIN [1246-1247 A.D.] when she had proved her own capacity for royal dominion, she bestowed it on a strange and absent son, with no thought but for the good of her country and of Christendom ; and, finally, as queen-mother and ever-faithful counsellor, she accepted all the difficulties of government, while the glory of royalty was reserved for the king whom she had created. Berengaria was ever present in the right place and at the proper time, and her name is associated only with what is good, and worthy, and noble, in an age of violence, and wrong, and robbery — when good faith was well-nigh unknown, when bad men were all-powerful, when murder was but an incident in family life, and treason the chief feature in politics.^
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