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JOANNA (1479-1555)

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JOANNA (1479-1555) , called the Mad (la See also:Low) ,See also:queen of See also:Castile and See also:mother of the See also:emperor See also:Charles V., was the second daughter of See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, See also:king and queen of See also:Spain, and was See also:born at See also:Toledo on the 6th of See also:November 1479. Her youngest See also:sister was See also:Catherine of See also:Aragon, the first wife of See also:Henry VIII. In 1496 at See also:Lille she was married to the See also:archduke See also:Philip the See also:Hand-some, son of the See also:German King See also:Maximilian I., and at See also:Ghent, in See also:February 1500, she gave See also:birth to the future emperor. The See also:death of her only See also:brother See also:John, of her eldest sister Isabella, queen of See also:Portugal, and then of the latter's See also:infant son See also:Miguel, made Joanna heiress of the See also:Spanish kingdoms, and in 1502 the See also:cortes of Castile and of Aragon recognized her and her See also:husband as their future sovereigns. Soon after this Joanna's See also:reason began to give way. She mourned in an extravagant See also:fashion for her absent husband, whom at length she joined in See also:Flanders; in this See also:country her passionate See also:jealousy, although justified by Philip's conduct, led to deplorable scenes. In November 1504 her mother's death See also:left Joanna queen of Castile, but as she was obviously incapable of ruling, the duties of See also:government were undertaken by her See also:father, and then for a See also:short See also:time by her husband. The queen was with Philip when he was wrecked on the See also:English See also:coast and became the See also:guest of Henry VII. at See also:Windsor; soon after this event, in See also:September 15o6, he died and Joanna's mind became completely deranged, it being almost impossible to get her away from the dead See also:body of her husband. The remaining years of her miserable existence were spent at Tordesillas, where she died on the 11th of See also:April 1555• In spite of her afflictions the queen was sought in See also:marriage by Henry VII. just before his death. Nominally Joanna remained queen of Castile until her death, her name being joined with that of Charles in all public documents, but of See also:necessity she took no See also:part in the business of See also:state. In addition to Charles she had a son Ferdinand, afterwards the emperor Ferdinand I., and four daughters, among them being Maria (1505-1558), wife of See also:Louis II., king of See also:Hungary, afterwards See also:governor-See also:general of the See also:Netherlands. See R.

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Villa, La Reina dona Juana la Loa; (See also:Madrid, 1892) ; Resler, Johanna See also:die Wahnsinnige (See also:Vienna, 189o) ; W. H. See also:Prescott, Hist. of Ferdinand and Isabella (1854) ; and H. See also:Tighe, A Queen of Unrest (1907).

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