Get a life!!

There was mental depression in that family though. Juana did inherit depression from her mother Isabella. She was most likely Bipolar. And obviously there were no treatments 500 years ago. With all the tragedies in her life it compounded her mental and emotional issues. She wasn't Mad though. Unstable at times yes.

It is hard when the men of your life instead of protect you and empowering you, they betray you.

What the hell, she lived a life of a rich woman of that time. Only she was not allowed to reign. She live more than 70 years. Her father was far more prepared to reign that her, obviously.

@@Alexs.2599 Not from her mother, but from her grandmother, Isabella's mother. Her mental inestabilitty was well known by her daughter Isabella who sadly saw later the same signs in her own daughter, Jane.

@@pandoraysucaja10 Yes that's what I mean. Isabella did not have depression herself but her mother Isabella of Portugal had severe postpartum depression. She probably carried the genes for it and past it down to her daughter Juana.

Yeah I think it's either the fact that they had different standards or that people of the time overexaggerated the looks. For example King Henry VIII is described as a 'looker' when it todays time he would most likely be considered average or below.

She was also an intelligent lady who had the sense to question the Catholic Church & its crazed practices of torture to those who wouldn't become one of them.

Yes.

Era guapa, tenía fama de guapa. De hecho al bicho de Felipe le gustó mucho Juana

@@rhrabadan Eres de Espania? I can speak, read in Spanish but, my writing no bueno.

I would love to see portraits of her children. Defintly a pretty lady to attract power-hungry men like Phillip and Henry vii

@@leticiagarcia9025 si, soy español

And her husband still cheated on her

She was also such an intelligent lady unlike the dummies who blindly followed the Catholic Faith without questioning.

she actually did have light hair like her mother and sister and an insane resemblance to Catherine (her sister) only her eyes were dark. but yeah, she was far more attractive than Phillip

Amen!

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Así es, él era un hombre común y ella solo una tonta enamorada 💘 si ella hubiera tenido el amor sano de su padre, de mayor no hubiera estado mendigando amor 😍 👋🏻 👩🏼 Saludos cordiales desde el maravilloso y mágico país de los Ynkas 🌞 Perú 🇵🇪

Muy cierto. Very true.

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❤️ Sounds beautiful!!!

House of Trastamara...not french, not Austrian but true Spanish.

@@julioalbertoherrera1339 Wrong comment section 😑

@@julioalbertoherrera1339 Thank you very much for that information. I liked it so much I made a screen clip of it to save it!

@@Mel16Ish La casa de Trastámara fue la última casa Real auténticamente española. Aunque la figura del rey siga siendo un símbolo hasta el día de hoy, se puede afirmar que la entrada de los borbones significó la abolición de las coronas de Castilla y Aragón.

The issue is not with stripping her of her powers (it is dangerous to rule and make decisions in a state of mental health). But the issue is, it was WRONG for them to imprison her in the convent.

What's even worse is her father's actions after isabel's death. He took the throne of Castile, not because of Joanna's mental illness, but because he still wanted to reign as King of Castile now in his own right. By saying that Juana was unstable, he acted as her mouth piece and was able to do what ever he wished because he was acting on "the Queen's will". He renegged on the second half of Catherine's dowry, and ignored her pleas for help.

@@MarcosCalebMarketing What would you have had them do with her? She demonstrated a complete inability and unwillingness to perform her office after the death of her husband. It would have been very dangerous to have her running around loose, giving plotters a tool to use, or perhaps, challenging the rule of Fernando on some issue. They didn't simply smother her in her sleep or poison her, but rather let her live out a long life. It seems to me they were being as kind as they could have been in the circumstances. Someone above said Fernando loved his daughters and the convent solution seems proof of that.

@@jamiegagnon6390 what you're saying isn't just wrong and ignorant words of a Ferdinand Fan which I think are so much in Spain, but untrue as well! even if Juana was unstable, still she could live a normal life by being the nominal queen, something her awful father took from her! you think having her locked in the convent was kindness? I wish to see your face if somehow your own flesh and blood turn against you and have you locked up in a huge palace with so much rooms, only in a windowless room, where not even your prisonguards treat you well, something even your child, who's the only one who has allowed to be with you, has terrible memories of years later. yes, even Catherine described how horrible that prison was and asked for her mother to be treated better! that's the kind of father you're defending? I wish for him to burn in hell and you to experience similar thing to see the extant of your own nature

Quite right but she was a PRINCESS, (correct title as she was a female), and then a Queen to boot! Difficult to assert yourself in the patriachy.

She wasn’t standing up for herself. She had the opportunity to reign Spain instead of Charles, and she wasted the opportunity. She didn’t want to reign and let Charles to reign. She was not what people expected of her.

@@etiam9473 good point

Well no everybody wants to rule. Some just want a hammock and a margaritas. Nothing wrong with that.

She is considered mad because she exhumed her deceased husband and carried his corpse around....

Sure! I hope you like big chins :-)

@@panagiotisconstantinou Hi, Could you do Jan III Sobieski of Poland? The great Battle of Vienna winner, and his legendary hussars.

@@panagiotisconstantinou yes😊

Yeah, i am especially curious on Charles ii. And hope it doesnt break the program.

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yes, and she too had a terrible life. Poor things.

And Juana even named her daughter after her sister.

Compared to him I'll bet you're hot

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yes, that's what I want as well

Tenía fama de bella, de hecho dicen que se parecía a su abuela paterna, la madre de Fernando. Tanto se parecía que Isabel la Católica llamaba cariñosamente a su hija Juana "Suegra"

There are photo and films... You can see them alive.

Philip I was handsome but that does not mean he wasn't a complete shitbag. Even his own father, Emperor Maximilian, preferred literally anyone over him. As for Fernando having declared Juana a lunatic...to put it simply, he didn't. All he claimed was that she was "unfit" to rule. The reason was kept out of court records and only divulged under privilege to the Cortés. When Juana and Philip I disembarked in Castile to press their rights, Fernando gave them the throne and left for Aragon (because he was literally fighting a war with the other european juggernauts). When Philip I died just months later, Juana remained the only Sovereign. Her reign was SO bad (she refused to sign legislation, or engage in statecraft in any capacity) that the Cortés pleaded Fernando to come back and set up a regency for Juana's son; Charles. The year Fernando got took over Castile, was literally called "the Green Year" by the people of Castile because that's how bad Philip's and Juana's reign was. Fernando confined Juana in the fortress of Tordesillas because he can't act as regent with the threat of a mentally challenged Queen looming over him. He literally said "Sending my daughter into Tordesillas was more draining than facing the French cannons in battle". Fernando loved his daughters (arguably more than Isabella, if their correspondences with him is anything to go by). When Isabella opted to curb the curriculum for her daughters (only Languages and Embroidery) compared to that of her son (Languages, Architecture, Logic, Statecraft etc...) to ensure they would never become a viable threat to him like she was to her brothers; Alfonso and Henry, it was Fernando who intervened and ensured the girls got an education the same as their son. People sympathize with Juana and demonize Fernando in the process, but no one talks about Philip II doing the exact same thing to his son; Charles. It wasn't a personal vandetta or power hungriness. It's all for the good of the realm, which is set to lose the most with a unstable ruler at it's head.

@@princepscivitatis4083 none of these shitty excuses, justify what both Fernando and Phillip II did to their own children! they weren't forced to leave their kingdoms in the hands of their mentally ill kids, but they shouldn't have done that much cruelty to them, either! Juana could be the nominal queen of Castile until her death, but would it hurt anyone if she just had a normal life, instead of getting imprisoned? a century after this event, the Queen consort of Sweden was also obsessed with her husband and kept his corpse, hell she even traumatized her daughter by doing so! and yet authorities there, just kept her locked until she can recover and calm down a bit, then freed her once she was able to live a normal life, despite being extremely sad! and funny how those who showed such a mercy to her weren't even her blood family! would it kill Juana's family to show that much mercy?

Also mental illness were not understood in those time. Let along have treatment. Only now Thanks GOD for that.

And her 'loving' husband had her nose retouched in her portrait.

@@LetThemGrumbIe yes!!! They both have their noses retouched, so does she. when Tiziano finished the portrait, and saw the queen's nose, Carlos asked him to change her nose

@@rhrabadan Oh great! A history buff! It's always a pleasure to find one under these comments. What's your favourite period?

@@LetThemGrumbIe Reyes Católicos and them Felipe II

“A Light in the Darkness” from Warlords of Draenor (someone else said this in the comments already).

@@dieule1354 My bad, I scrolled through the comments and I haven't noticed. Thanks a lot :)

Yes Boss! At once! I'll get right on it. I ll just call a group of high-paid software engineer specialists, and fix the bug.

She slept with the corps of her dead husband under her bed... You simpleton.

@@timmorin6657 Quote your source for that, please. It's black legend.

@@LetThemGrumbIe Not, was a fact. However, you can find a good reason for that: by law, while her husband wasn't officially buried, she can't be married again, so it's possible that she used that tactic to control her destiny. P. D. The corpse was in a coffin, of course.

@@CBOANDALUCIA Can you quote your source so I can look into it, please? I know she was afraid his body was going to be stolen, which was a real possibility and part of the reason she set off on that trip and why she decided she wanted to see it buried. But her father intercepted her before she could finish and sent her to Tordesillas to rest.

@@LetThemGrumbIe Do you speak Spanish? If not, it would be difficult.

Katherine was her younger sister

She was Katherine's older sister.

@@michelleg7 thanks - thought she must have been… ☺️

Katherine was Joanna's favourite sister.

Juana was the older sister of Catalina de Aragón, infact Catalina was Juana's favourite sister.

Dear, Fernando of Aragón was a SOB. He recognized 30 biological children during his life, he had a low education in comparison with Isabel of Castilla, who never permitted him to take control of Castilla except in military affairs, and they relationship was complicated... But he was always very ambitious. So he didn't want a mini Isabel again. By the other hand, while the Juana's husband didn't was officially buried, they can't married her again, so it was an interesting movement to controlled her destiny, if it was conscious.

Fernando is quoted as saying "Sending my daughter [Juana] into Tordesillas proved more draining than facing the French cannons on the battlefield". He didn't take pleasure in having to do what he did. It was for the good of the realm. The same people chastising Fernando would do the exact same thing if he had let Juana rule and destroy everything he and Isabella had fought for for 30 years.