#joanna the mad
My Trastamara’s Girl - Part Four
As her mother, Juanna had 4 daughters, all queens!
Eleonor of Austria
Eleanor was the eldest child of Philip of Austria and Juanna of Castile, and was an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen consort of Portugal as the wife of Manuel I of Portugal (1518–1521) and of France as the wife of Francis I of France (1530–1547). She had only one daughter, Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu. Maria was born on 1521 in Lisbon. In the same year, her father died and her step-brother John III became king. Shortly afterwards, Maria’s mother, the dowager queen Eleanor, returned to her brother’s court in Vienna, taking Maria with her.
In 1530, Eleanor married King Francis I of France and moved to France. Maria would not see her mother for nearly 28 years. Meanwhile, in 1525, Eleanor’s younger sister (Maria’s aunt) Catherine had married Maria’s step-brother John III of Portugal. At some point, Maria moved from Vienna to Lisbon. She was to live in Portugal, at the court of her step-brother and his family, for the rest of her life.
Maria died unmarried and childless.
Eleonor’s portrait was painted by Joos von Cleve when she already was queen of France, in 1530.
Isabella of Austria
Isabella of Austria was an archduchess of Austria and infanta of Castile and Aragon, was Queen of Denmark, Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Christian II, she also served as regent of Denmark in 1520.
Isabella had 2 daughters, Dorothea and Christina.
Dorothea of Denmark and Norway, electress of the Palatinate as the wife of Elector Frederick II of the Palatinate.
As the eldest surviving child of the abdicated Christian II, Dorothea had a claim to the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish throne. The Habsburg family selected Frederick of the Palatinate to be her consort as they believed that he could successfully claim the Danish throne through marriage. She married Frederick in 1535 in Heidelberg. They had no children.
Christina of Denmark, Duchess-consort of Milan, then Duchess-consort of Lorraine.
She was also the Regent of Lorraine in the years 1545–1552 during the minority of her son and a claimant to the thrones of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
After Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, died in 1537, Christina was considered as a possible bride for the English king. The German painter Hans Holbein was commissioned to paint portraits of noblewomen eligible to become the English queen.Christina, then only sixteen years old, made no secret of her opposition to marrying the English king, who by this time had a reputation around Europe for his mistreatment of wives. She supposedly said, “If I had two heads, one should be at the King of England’s disposal.”
Isabella’s painting is from c. 1520
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My Trastamara’s Girls - Part Three
Isabella of Castille had 4 daughter, the 1st and the 3nd was queen of Portugal, but her most famous daughters are Juanna of Castille and Catherine of Aragon.
Juanna of Castille or Juanna la Loca
Juana became known as Juanna la Loca (Joanna the Mad), because of her emotional disorders, which worsened with the affairs of her husband, Philip the Handsome, by whom she was completely in love.
Most historians now agree that she had melancholia, severe clinical depression, a psychosis, or a case of inherited schizophrenia. There is debate about the diagnosis that she was mentally ill considering that her symptoms were aggravated by non-consensual confinement and control by others who had assumed her royal powers.
c. 1500
Catherine of Aragon (Catalina de Aragon), queen of England
Catalina de Aragon as princess of Wales, when she still was married with prince Arthur, Henry VIII’s older brother and heir of english throne until his death. She became queen of England by her marriage with Henry VIII. Henry divorced her to marry Anne Boleyn. She and Henry was Queen Mary I’s parents.
As I relied on a picture of only her face, I used as reference, the dresses Elizabeth of York (her mother-in-law) and Isabella of Castile (her mother) to can make the skirt.
I was wondering make a real version of Catalina, since only had done the Tudor’s show version. Catalina was red, not brunet, and how I made her mother, sisters and daughter as red, it would be really weird if just she didn’t was according with she really was.
The 1st fanart was inspired in one of her most famous portraits when she stillwas just princess of Wales as wife of prince Arthur Tudor (c. 1502), and 2nd fanart was inspired in a George Stuart’s wax figure when she already was queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII (c. 1530).
c. 1530
In the next posts we’ll see Juanna’s daughters
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My Trastamara’s Girls - Part Five
The youngest daughters of Juanna of Castile
Mary of Hungary
She was queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia as the wife of King Louis II, and was later Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.
Mary married King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in 1515. Their marriage was happy but short and childless. Upon her husband’s death following the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Mary governed Hungary as regent in the name of the new king, her brother, Ferdinand I.
In 1531, Mary was asked by her eldest brother, Emperor Charles V, to assume the governance of the Netherlands and guardianship over their nieces, Dorothea and Christina of Denmark, upon the death of their aunt Margaret. As governor of the Netherlands, Mary faced riots and a difficult relationship with the Emperor. Throughout her tenure she continuously attempted to ensure peace between the Emperor and the King of France. Although she never enjoyed governing and asked for permission to resign several times, the Queen succeeded in creating a unity between the provinces, as well as in securing for them a measure of independence from both France and the Holy Roman Empire. After her final resignation, the frail Queen moved to Castile, where she died.
c. 1519
Catherine of Portugal
She was the wife of King John III of Portugal. She was also the Regent of Portugal during the minority of her grandson King Sebastian of Portugal from 1557 until 1562.
Her story was really sad. Catherine was the posthumous daughter of Philip of Hapsburg by Juanna of Castile She was born in Torquemada and remained with her disturbed mother until the arrival in Spain from Flanders of her eldest siblings, Eleanor of Austria and the future Emperor Charles V.
All of her five older siblings, except Ferdinand, were born in the Low Countries and had been put into the care of their aunt Margaret of Austria, but Juanna kept hold of her young daughter Catherine. Catherine actually stayed with her mother in her prison cell during her grandfather’s time as regent. Catherine and two ladies-in-waiting stayed with Joanna.
Catherine had nothing to do all day, except to look out of the window. Later she and her mother were freed from confinement.
Catherine married her first cousin, King John III of Portugal. They had nine children, but only two survived early childhood. Her daughter, Maria Manuela of Portugal died 4 days after given birth to her only son, Don Carlos, prince of Asturias.
After the death of her husband in 1557, Catherine was challenged by her daughter-in-law and niece, Joan of Austria, over the role of regent for her grandchild, the infant King Sebastian. Mediation by Charles V resolved the issue in favour of his sister Catherine over his daughter Joan, who was needed in Spain in the absence of Philip II.
She then served as the regent of Portugal from 1557 until 1562. In 1562, she turned over the regency to Henry of Portugal.
She was named in honor of her maternal aunt, Catherine of Aragon, first wife of King Henry VIII of England.
c. 1552
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