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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 See also: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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