Queen Joanna "the Mad" of Castile watching over the casket of her dead husband Philip I of Castile.

Francisco Pradilla, 1877

Don't mind me, I'm just thinking about how Joanna I of Castile named three daughters after her sisters and wanted to name her firstborn son after her brother.

It’s the fact that there actually is a collectors coin for Leonor’s birthday 😭😭 is 🇪🇸 or the original anon got a secret schedule from casareal? 😭😭 honestly I needed a good laugh today and that was hilarious to wake up to. Great work guys! All in all the coin looks really great!! Secondly here is my question, if you could meet any Spanish royal, from any period, could be Isabel of Castile or even Leonor, spend a week with them and ask all the questions you could…who would you pick? Let’s time travel just a bit. I think I would go with Isabel of Castile. Or I would see Charles, the last king of the Habsburgs in Spain before the house of Borbón. Would have liked to see how all that went down.

That is such a coincidence!!! Casa real has been feeding us a lot of good Leonor content lately and this whole thing is like the biggest coincidence like ever!

I think that I would definitely go back to see Catherine of Aragon and her sister Joanna and to give both of them a BIG BIG BIG hug because they honestly deserve it and I would definitely give Joanna some anxiety meds lol. Also seeing Charles II sounds fun too. He was one of the worst cases of inbreeding in the Hapsburgs and maybe in all of the royal history of Europe and I would love to see how he functions daily and to accurately see how messed up he was because he was REALLY messed up.

Thank you for asking and new chapters of WOTC are coming soon!

important question for the six fandom

...has anyone ever done six-ified versions of Catherine of Aragon’s family (besides her daughter of course)? Particularly her sister, Juana de Castile/Joanna of Castile/ “Joanna the Mad”? 

(I’ve seen people draw Mary Boleyn before as far as other siblings go, but I may, or may not, need a Joanna design for something I’m cooking up.)

History Tuesday: Was “Joanna the mad” actually mad?

Juana of Castile, or also known as “Joanna the mad” or “Juana La Loca” was queen of Castile and Aragon from 1504 and 1516 respectively until her death in 1555, despite having two older siblings. She also had two younger sisters, one being Catherine of Aragon- former wife of King Henry VIII and Queen of England.

When she was just 16 in 1496, she was married to Philip the Handsome- the two going on to have 6 children together. She herself was an exceptionally smart young woman, being able to speak multiple languages such as French and latin, and was educated in a number of topics including math, philosophy, law, hunting, falconry, genealogy and music.

But unfortunately, she wasn’t given the nickname for her smarts. Sadly it was around 1504 when she was 24 years old she began to show signs of behavior issues and mental troubles. Her mother- Isabella of Castile would fall ill, leading to Juana choosing to not eat or even sleep. She would also become enraged when she was not allowed to travel to her husband fas she was dependent on him for comfort- due to a war. Later, in 1506 when her husband died, she would become incredibly irate. Its said when he was alive she was extremely jealous, and even once attacked a mistress with a pair of scissors. She would go as far as to not part with his corpse, often opening the coffin to speak to him and kiss him, even possibly lying with the body prior to his burial. At this time, she had lost her mother and husband, as well as her two older siblings and nephew. And, to top it off- she was heavily pregnant, could it been the hormones?

Historians believe the possible mental instability could be traced back to her maternal grandmother, being so ill she was sent to a convent. Juana possibly suffered from depression (even post-partum) schizophrenia, and psychosis, but its also speculated her illnesses would be extremely dramatized by those closest to her.

When her mother passed, this made her Queen of Castile. Though, Isabella would tell her husband and father to Joanna- Ferdinand II of Aragon before her passing that he could take over reign only if Joanna was deemed “unfit” to rule. To which he would try to take that from her. He would even try to conspire with Phillip though he died soon after. When her father returned to Castile in 1507 he managed to force Joanna to revoke her royal powers over Hornillos.

Even prior to Philips death he himself would spread rumors of her mental instability, which was believed even when her son- Charles became the holy roman emperor. He would have her committed to the Convent of Santa Clara in Tordesillas, and refuse her any visitors. This is where she remained until her death in 1555 at age 75.

Sources: The Madness of Juana of Castile, Queen Juana: The mad or the betrayed?, Who is Joanna the Mad?, Juana of Castile and Her Madness, Joanna of Castile: A Misunderstood Queen in Portraits

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from the margins of the "hours of joanna the mad", bruges, c. 1486-1506

source: London, British Library, Add MS 18852, fol. 67r, 119r, 162r

I think the thing I dislike the most about the Lannister twins being Targaryens theory is that a lot of it just boils down to bioessentialism.

Why is Joffrey so awful? It's not because of his toxic upbringing, he was just born like that. Why did Jaime and Cersei get into an incestuous relationship? Their targ genes made them want to screw each other. Why is Cersei like that? Coin flip! It's not the fault of their familial environment or even the consequences of their own agency that made them what they are, their choices were encoded into their genes so why bother discussing ANY of their actions.

– juana i de trastámara ; infanta of spain, duchess consort of burgundy, queen of castile, aragon, valencia, mallorca, navarre, naples, sicily, sardinia and countess of barcelona was born on this day, 6th of november of 1479

my mind has been developing this delusion world in which tywin lannister was the mad king’s sugar baby. aerys was “vain, proud, and changeable, traits that made him easy prey for flatterers and lickspittles” (awoiaf p.190). upon becoming king, he fired his father’s older and wiser hand and named tywin in his place, making tywin the youngest hand in the entire history of the seven kingdoms, but how did we get there?

there were childhood friends. tywin served as a page in court and we know from genna that tywin mistrusted laughter due to hearing too many people laughing at his father. at this point in time, the lannisters were a laughingstock or at least tywin wholeheartedly believed this, so the subsequent friendship he makes with the crown prince thrusts him upwards in status and into higher scrutiny. tywin is the elder, but aerys is the prince. they spend years together with the established dynamic of aerys being the one with power and tywin (albeit his friend) his servant. it is only when tywin dares to step outside this master/servant dynamic aerys has cooked up, that they begin to fall apart.

they go to war together. aerys chooses tywin, a newly made knight, to knight him. this was the war of the ninepenny kings, he could have chosen gerold hightower. he could have chosen roger reyne, or any number of distinguished knights and commanders, but no he chose tywin who had likely just been knighted himself. for added context, during this war tywin’s father stayed at home with his mistress rather than taking to the battlefield. nearly a year later, aerys is crowned and tywin is named hand of the king. as hand of the king, tywin is allowed any expense, any decision, literally allowed to do anything he wants at aerys’ leave (up until their toxic breakup era).

something that always fascinated me within this was why after gaining power of his own merit and name does he make his father’s mistress do a walk of atonement? at first, i believed this to be a way to embarrass his father further from the grave and cement his notoriety. however, right after he forces the walk of atonement, aerys and tywin rule the kingdom from casterly rock for a year (awoiaf p.194). if we believe that tywin has a subconscious or conscious shame in regards to using aerys’ fondness for him (whether you want to see it romantically or not) for seize of power and political gain, the walk of atonement is so interesting as it is a public self-flagellation of a transactional relationship that he himself mirrors. it is after this very act that aerys holds court (and tywin) at casterly rock, the scene of the crime in a sense. here tywin is, like his fathers mistresses in the same very home, flattering and bootlicking the same man for money, influence, and power. it is only after this year in casterly rock where tywin is forced to reconcile with these similarities that their relationship dissolves.

in conclusion, tywin was playing sugar baby to aerys and their relationship soured when tywin decided he wished for power that was truly his own rather than through aerys.

Period dramas dresses tournament: Yellow-Golden dresses Semifinals- Group B: Edith Cushing, Crimson peak (gifset) vs Joanna of Castile, Juana la loca (gifset)

Isabel and Juana of Castile + quote

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Isabel had good cause for being upset. Such was “the disposition of the Princess” as the physicians described it, “that not only should it pain those who see her often and love her greatly, but also anyone at all, even strangers, because she sleeps badly, eats little and at times nothing, and she is very sad and thin. Sometimes she does not wish to talk and appears as though in a trance; her infirmity progresses greatly.” It was customary, they explained, to treat Juana’s infirmity through love, entreaty, or fear; but the princess had proven unreceptive to entreaty, and even “a little force” affected her so adversely that it was a great pity to attempt it and no one wanted to try, so that, beyond the queen’s customary immense labors and concerns, this weight of caring for her daughter fell upon her. It has been conjectured that Isabel’s illness could have been cancer, endocarditis—infection of the heart valve—chronic dropsy, or several of them combined. By the following June she had a visible tumor, although it is not known where or of what sort. In August she took Juana to Segovia, which she had seemingly avoided for years, telling her it was a step toward the north coast and her departure for Flanders. There Isabel continued to try with little success to get her to turn her mind to affairs of state. Juana showed little interest in government and in her child, and a good deal of disregard for religious matters of any sort, and for public opinion as well. The princess appeared to disdain much of what Isabel valued, and even to represent the antithesis of the very qualities her mother valued most highly. Even so, Juana was her designated successor, and Isabel was determined to keep her in Spain and do her best to train her to be its queen. So the arguments against Juana’s departure were patiently repeated: the season, the sea, the French, that Philip should be safe in Ghent before she traveled, and did she not want to see her father before she left? The hope remained that Juana would stay and Charles join her, so that Isabel might have him educated in Spain’s customs and come to prefer its people. And with Juana and Charles there and Philip not, should Isabel die, Fernando, still king of Aragón, could surely manage to guide their daughter in governing Castile. It was November. A treaty with France—arranged by the queen of France, Anne of Brittany, and Margaret of Austria—had been signed, and an envoy arrived from Philip requesting that Juana return to Flanders. Isabel, playing for time, responded that the princess, although better, was not well, that relations with France were still such that it was not safe for her to travel by land or, now that it was winter, by sea, that she had better wait until spring, and that “following her frame of mind and la pasión she has” that Juana should not be where there was no one who could quiet and restrain her for it might be dangerous for her. The implication was that Juana was emotionally out of control. Exactly what was meant by “restrain” we do not know.

-Peggy K. Liss, Isabel the Queen

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At a humane level, (this is delusional when it comes to tywin so bear with me) does Tywin ever think about at his age, that Aerys and Steffon never got to see this age? Does he think about all those years ago, does he think about Joanna and Rhaella. Both dying the same way.