![]() Juana I of Castile was born in the Alcázar of Toledo in 1479. Romanticism, in the 19th century, found an authentic vein in the character of Juana. Both literature and painting were nourished by Juana’s passion for her husband Felipe el Hermoso, by her unbridled jealousy and necrophilia that has never been verified historically.įor some authors, Queen Juana was crazy, for others she was demonized and needed an exorcism to free the demons that were housed in her body. Other researchers point to a conspiracy to remove her from the throne of Castile. This political plot would have used Juana’s emotional instability as a pretext to spread rumors about her madness, disqualify her from her position and lock her up for life. ![]() Queen Juana spent the last years of her life, almost half a century, locked up in the castle of Tordesillas. Juana’s captivity was imposed by the will of her father, first, and her son, later, alleging insanity and inability to govern. Juana La Loca is one of those historical figures who have raised enormous passions. Queen Juana I of Castile was the daughter of the Catholic Monarchs and would go down in history with the sad nickname of Juana “La Loca”.
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