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JUANA DE CASTILLA, SPAIN THE FIRST QUEEN OF ROBINSON CRUSOE


Juana la Loca and Philip the Handsome rest in the Cathedral of Granada next to the Catholic Monarchs

History has not been very lenient with Juana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs. His nickname of La Loca us that has not had very good press in the annals of history.

Juana was born in Toledo on November 6, 1479. His education was marked by the severity of both their mothers and their teachers. Soon he expressed a mystical vein that sought to channel it becoming a nun, but her parents had another attractive target for Juana and when he turned 16, was arranged her marriage to the Archduke Philip of Austria, known by the nickname of The Beautiful .

Joan had six children over seven years, the last when she was a widow. His life is full of stormy times caused by the jealousy that the affairs of Philip caused it. Jealousy, anger, abandonment, reconciliation, were undermining their health and seemed that their relationship was going through a quiet time until September 8, 1506. That day, Philip played a ball game in Burgos. When finished, sweaty and thirsty, drinking a sip of cold water which caused a few hours I had a fever that made him weaker until, on 25 September of that year, died.

Psychiatrists who have examined the figure of Juana believe that suffering was a paranoid type schizophrenic psychosis. Her mental delirium is exacerbated by the loss of her husband. Not eating, washing and so Jill can not reign. The decision is residing in the castle of Tordesillas (Valladolid), then it is confined to not be able to govern destinations of the kingdom of Castile.

In 1516 Ferdinand died, and will, his kingdom of Aragon passed to Juana, which do not accept most of the nobles, a situation that takes advantage of his son Charles to be crowned King of Spain in its name and its mother.

SIX FAMOUS SONS Juana

1. Leonor: was queen consort of Portugal to become the third wife of Manuel I and death of the married Francis I of France.
2. Carlos: was king of Spain as Charles I and Emperor of Germany under the name of Charles V.
3. Isabel: became queen consort of Denmark and the Kalmar Union to be the wife of Christian II.
4. Fernando: was king of Hungary and Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor by the name of Fernando I to succeed his brother Charles in the post. Together they created and espeñola Austrian line of Habsburg.
5. Mary was queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia, and wife of Louis II. On the death of this became governor of the Netherlands.
6. Catalina: born when his father had died and she was queen consort of Portugal when she married John III.

That link was part of the foreign policy of the Catholic Kings, by this marriage and his heir John and Margaret of Austria, sister of Philip himself, sought to isolate his greatest enemy, France.

Source: HISTORY OF OLD IBERIA

Spain History Magazine No. 43