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The Crown of Castile [nb 1] was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.
Juana was the daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348) and his third wife Blanca Núñez de Lara de La Cerda. [1] Her mother Blanca (d. 1347) was a descendant of the lords of Biscay and of Lara and of Alfonso X's eldest son, Fernando de la Cerda. She was the last undisputably legitimate member of the House of Ivrea .
May 12, 2023 · Category. : Joanna of Castile. English: Joanna of Castile, (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555), called Joanna the Mad (Juana La Loca), was Queen-regnant of Castile. She was the second daughter of Ferdinand, king of Aragon, and Isabella, queen of Castile. She was married to Philip I of Castile and mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
May 29, 2022 · Joanna I (Spanish: Juana I) (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555) was Queen regnant of Castile and Queen regnant of Aragon, in present day Spain. Joanna was the last monarch of the Iberian House of Trastámara, and her marriage to Philip of Burgundy (Philip the Handsome) initiated the Habsburg Dynasty rule in Spain.
Catherine of Lancaster. Signature. "John II of Castile", imaginary portrait by Francisco Aznar (1881) John II of Castile (Spanish: Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile [1] and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405.
Joanna became queen of Castile when her mother died in 1504. Philip was proclaimed king in 1506, but died a few months later, leaving his wife distraught with grief. Joanna's father, Ferdinand II of Aragon , and her own son, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor , were quick to seize power, confining the queen for the rest of her life on account of her ...
