Joan of Portugal facts for kids
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Queen Joan in Genealogia dos Reis de Portugal (António de Holanda; 1530–1534)
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| Queen consort of Castile and León | |
| Tenure | 21 May 1455 – 11 December 1474 |
| Born | 31 March 1439 Mount Olivete Villa, Almada, Portugal |
| Died | 13 June 1475 (aged 36) Madrid, Castile |
| Burial | Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid |
| Spouse | Henry IV of Castile |
| Issue | Joanna, Queen of Portugal Pedro de Castilla y Portugal Andres Apostol de Castilla y Portugal |
| House | Aviz |
| Father | Edward, King of Portugal |
| Mother | Eleanor of Aragon |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Joan of Portugal (Portuguese: Joana [ʒuˈɐnɐ]; 31 March 1439 – June 13, 1475) was the Queen of Castile as the second wife of King Henry IV of Castile. The posthumous daughter of King Edward of Portugal and Eleanor of Aragon, she was born in the Quinta do Monte Olivete Villa, Almada.
Queen of Castile
On 21 May 1455 in Córdoba, she married as his second wife King Henry IV of Castile who had repudiated his first consort, Blanche II of Navarre, after thirteen years of marriage. It was rumoured that their marriage had never been consummated due to the king's impotence. Henry and Joan shared the same maternal grandparents; Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque (making them first cousins). They also shared the same paternal great-grandfather; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (making them second cousins). In February 1462, six years after Joan's marriage to Henry, she gave birth to a daughter, also named Joan, called La Beltraneja because of rumours that she was in fact the daughter of Don Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque, who was suspected of being Joan's lover.
Henry banished Joan from the royal court and she went to live in Coca at the castle of Henry's supporter, Bishop Fonseca. She soon fell in love with Bishop Fonseca's nephew; they embarked on an affair, which resulted in Joan bearing her lover two illegitimate sons. Henry subsequently declared their marriage had never been legal and thus divorced her in 1468.
At the death of her former husband in 1474, Joan championed her daughter's right to succeed to the throne, but she died shortly thereafter. This led to the outbreak of the War of the Castilian Succession (1475–1479).
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In Spanish: Juana de Portugal para niños
