Bérengère de León
- Born: 1204, León, Asturias, Iberia
- Marriage (1): Jean de Brienne Emporer of Constantinople in 1224 in Toledo, Castilla 160
- Died: 12 Apr 1237, Constantinople at age 33
- Buried: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela
 Another name for Bérengère was Berenguela de León.
Noted events in her life were:
• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Castile & León, Counts & Kings Berenguela de Castilla y León
"The Chronicon Mundi of Lucas Tudensis names "Alionoram primogenitam, Constanciam, et Berengariam" as the daughters of Alfonso IX King of León and his second wife [Lucas Tudensis, Liber IV, p. 109]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the wife of "rex Ierusalem Iohannes" as daughter of "Berengaria" and "regi Legionensi id est regi Galicie" and in a later passage records the marriage of "rex Iohannes Ierosolimitanus" and "filia regis Gallicie, sororem Fernandi de Castella", but in neither place is she named [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1212 and 1224, MGH SS XXIII, pp. 895 and 913].
Bérengère married Jean de Brienne Emporer of Constantinople, son of Erard II Comte de Brienne and Agnès de Montbéliard, in 1224 in Toledo, Castilla.160 (Jean de Brienne Emporer of Constantinople was born about 1168 in Brienne-le-Chateau, Aube, Champagne and died on 27 Mar 1237 160.)
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