Reference drawing of Juana I of Castile for the Tomb of Maximillian I by Jörg Kölderer (1522)

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

Thread about Joanna of Castile: Part 8.2: “A Mother's Distress: Juana's Turbulent Departure from the Castle”

Guessing that her mother was trying every trick she could think of to keep her, Juana abandoned pleading and talking. Instead, she staged an astonishing display of histrionic, even hysterical, behaviour, indulging in tactics she would employ for the rest of her life whenever she was thwarted or powerless. She refused to eat, to talk, or to sleep, she attempted to force a ship’s captain to prepare to sail.

On a cold November night, Juana fled, half-clad, from the castle.

When she realised that Isabel had ordered that the gates be shut, she

“Remained in the outer precinct of the house all evening and all night and all the next day until the second hour in the humidity and night dew and without either hat or coat, during one of the coldest nights of the year so far, and not for a moment would she return to her room.”

She even threatened the bishop with death and torture for keeping her locked up.

Martire describes her prowling the outer precincts of the castle like “an African lion.”

The international fair was in full swing, with the saddle and leather workers engaging in trade close to the castle walls. Concerned that Juana’s departure would cost her authority and reputation, Isabel sent a series of high-ranking emissaries, including Cisneros, in vain attempts to persuade her to return inside.

In the end, Isabel had to come in person:

“With more effort and haste, and making longer days of it than I knew was good for my health.”

But Juana :

“Spoke to me so heatedly and with words so disrespectful and so far, beyond what a daughter should say to a mother, that had I not seen the state she was in I would not have tolerated it for a moment.”

We do not have Juana’s account. Did she, when arguing with her mother, venture into the darker territory of Isabel’s past? Might she even have referred to Isabel’s role in the descasamiento of Afonso V of Portugal and Juana (‘la Beltraneja’) of Castile when the war of the Castilian succession of 1475–1479 ended in their defeat? The heir to the throne of Castile, Enrique IV's daughter and heir, was still confined to monastic confinement in Portugal in 1503, but she would never give up her claim to the crown.

On 2 December 1503, Lope de Conchillos wrote to his uncle, Fernando's secretary, Miguel Pérez de Almazán, that Isabel was well but “very afflicted and tired” of the princess.

In March 1504, Juana was finally allowed to leave the country. In the end, her tantrums worked. The bishop of Catania, Diego Ramirez de Guzmán, was sent with her to strengthen the Spanish diplomatic presence in Brussels. Moreover, Diego Ramirez de Villaescusa, bishop of Málaga, did not accompany her.

Juana’s journey, from beginning to end, was a reversal of the first. There were no tears when she left Laredo, but Philip eagerly awaited her at Blankenburg/Blankenberge.

While Isabel wondered if she would stay as unhappy as she was while she was here, she was the talk of the Low Countries. Juana's decision to leave Castile would have big effects on her future and the kingdoms she ruled.

Sources: Fleming, G. B. (2018). Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile (1st ed. 2018 edition). Palgrave Macmillan.

Fox, J. (2012). Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile. Ballantine Books.

Gómez, M. A., Juan-Navarro, S., & Zatlin, P. (2008). Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen. Associated University Presse.

Vicente Palmaroli (Spanish) - Escena musical o Juana la Loca en Tordesillas (Ca. 1884-1885). Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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.

↳ #qab22modern

"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

-Charles Baudelaire

La Reina Doña Juana la Loca (The Queen Juana the Mad) - Gabriel Maureta Aracil (detail) // Jeanne la Folle (Juana the Mad) - Louis Gallait // Back to the Ground - The Crane Wives

if you have time/inclination can you draw juana i please its necessary for my health. and her shitty husband too if you're feeling it

"jUanA pLEaSe" pHiLiP PLeASe shut the hell up

bonus:

Jacob van Lathem

Juana I de Castilla (Juana la Loca) óleo sobre tabla. 1495

Nacida en la ciudad de Toledo el 6 de noviembre de 1479, Juana I de Castilla era la tercera hija de los Reyes Católicos. La muerte de sus hermanos mayores y de uno de sus sobrinos la convirtieron en la heredera de las Coronas de Castilla y Aragón en el año 1500.

Juana era inteligente, ya que aprendió latín y poseía y tenía notables aptitudes para la música.

Los Reyes Católicos la casaron con el archiduque austriaco Felipe el Hermoso ,archiduque de Austria, duque de Borgoña, Brabante y conde de Flandes. Tuvo con él seis hijos:

Leonor, reina de Francia

Carlos I de España

Isabel, reina de Dinamarca

Fernando I del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico

María, reina de Hungría

Catalina, reina de Portugal

La llamaban "Juana la Loca" se cuenta, por su conducta irremediable de apasionados celos que sentía por las infidelidades de su esposo Felipe I, al que ella amaba con tal fervor, que la llevó supuestamente a la locura.

Los investigadores nos cuentan que quizá Juana no estaba tan loca, si no que así la quisieron otorgar este título para poder terminar encerrándola y de está forma quitársela de en medio para que el siguiente en la línea de sucesión a la corona de Castilla fuera otro a conveniencia.

El 25 de septiembre de 1506 murió su esposo Felipe I el Hermoso, según algunos, envenenado, lo que nos lleva a pensar que quizás hubo un complot no solo contra la Reina Juana I, si no también contra el Rey Felipe I para poder conseguir el trono por parte de Fernando el católico pues el confinamiento de doña Juana , por su presunta incapacidad mental, y la muerte de Felipe, era esencial para la legitimidad en el trono castellano, primero de su padre, Fernando, y después de su hijo, Carlos I.

Desde que su padre la recluyera, en 1509, la reina Juana permaneció cuarenta y seis años en una casona-palacio-cárcel de Tordesillas, vestida siempre de negro y con la única compañía de su última hija, Catalina, sus damas y un retrato de su amado esposo Felipe I.

📍Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid

Period drama's dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses Round 2- Group B: Lucrezia Borgia, The Borgias (gifset) vs Joanna of Castile, Juana la loca (gifset)

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.)

Thread about Joanna of Castile: Part : 10 “A Storm of Jealousy: Juana and Philip's Turbulent Reunion"

By May 1504, Juana was in Burgundy. Juana’s reunion with Philip and the children was joyful.

But soon afterwards she suspected, or discovered, an affair between Philip and a noblewoman in her entourage:

“They say,” writes Martire, “that, her heart full of rage, her face vomiting fames, her teeth clenched, she rained blows on one of her ladies, whom she suspected of being the lover, and ordered that they cut her blond hair, so pleasing to Philip …”

Philip’s response was equally furious. He had “thrown himself” on his wife and publicly insulted her.

Sensitive and obstinate, “Juana is heartbroken … and unwell …”. Isabel “suffers much, astonished by the northerner’s violence.

Maximilian’s biographer, Wiesfecker, describes Juana’s response as:

"The symptom of a pathological, passionate, if not unfounded, Haßliebe, fomenting continual strife. "

Juana would have known for years about Philip's visits to the baigneries and his more casual relationships with women. However, this affair seemed to pose a direct challenge to her standing and dignity. Juana knew her faults and had tried to limit them. In 1500, after becoming princess, she had asked Isabel to send her an honest and prudent Spanish lady who:

“Knows how to advise her, and where she sees something out of order (‘deshordenado’) in her conduct could say so as servant and adviser but not as an equal because, even if the advice were good, if expressed in a disrespectful way it would create more anger in she to whom it was said than it would allow for correction.”

Sources: Fleming, G. B. (2018). Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile (1st ed. 2018 edition). Palgrave Macmillan.

Fox, J. (2012). Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile. Ballantine Books.

Gómez, M. A., Juan-Navarro, S., & Zatlin, P. (2008). Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen. Associated University Presse.

juana la loca (2001) dir. vicente aranda