A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Margaret, daughter of Raymond Berenger

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4120774A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Margaret, daughter of Raymond Berenger

MARGARET,

Daughter of Raymond Berenger, count of Provence, married St. Louis, King of France, in 1254, and attended him during his wars in the Holy Land with the Saracens; when, on his captivity, she behaved with heroic intrepidity in the defence of Damietta. She died at Paris in 1285, aged seventy-six.