Portrait of Joan the Beltraneja.

Princess Juana of Castile, known also as the Beltraneja, was born in 1462 and died in Lisbon in 1530. Her birth caused a scandal in the Castilian court. Her mother was Joana, princess of Portugal, the consort queen of king Henry IV of Castile. The king had no other children from this or the previous marriages and rumour said he was impotent. Because of this and the fact that Joana of Portugal was having a notorious affair with Beltrán de La Cueva, a Castilian noble, Juana was never considered legitimate. Moreover, she was nicknamed the Beltraneja (a mocking reference to her assumed real father) from the cradle. Her mother was banished to Bishop Fonseca's castle where she fell in love with Fonseca's nephew and became pregnant. Henry divorced her. Download high resolution version (768x1024, 46 KB) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or more. ... Download high resolution version (768x1024, 46 KB) This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or more. ... Events Settlers from Portugal begin to settle the Cape Verde islands. ... Lisbon (Portuguese: Lisboa, IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ... June 25 - Augsburg confession presented to Charles V of Holy Roman Empire. ... The starting point of Crown of Castile can be considered when the union of the Kingdoms of Castile and Leon in 1230 or the later fusion of their Cortes (their Parlaments). ... For the Portuguese princess, daughter of Afonso V of Portugal, and commonly known as Princess Saint Joan see: Joan of Portugal (nun) Joan of Portugal (1439–1475, Portuguese: Joana, pron. ... Henry IV of Castile Enrique IV (5 January 1425 - 11 December 1474), King of Castile, nicknamed the Impotent (ruled 1454-1474), was the last of the weak late medieval kings of Castile. ...

Legitimate or not, Joanna remained the only child that could be remotely attributed to Henry IV of Castile. He even made the nobles of Castile swear alliance to her and promise that they would support her as queen. After a few unsettled arrangements, that included French and Burgundian princes, Joanna was promised in marriage to her uncle, King Afonso V of Portugal, who swore to defend her (and his own) rights to the crown of Castile. But when Henry died in 1474, nobody took Juana's cause seriously and the crown went to Isabella I of Castile, her aunt, initiating a four-year War of the Castilian Succession. Pedigree collapse is a term created by Robert C. Gunderson to denominate the collapse of the family trees caused either by close cousin marriages or distant cousins unknowingly getting married. ... Afonso V of Portugal (Portuguese pron. ... Events December 12 - Upon the death of Henry IV of Castile a civil war ensues between his designated successor Isabella I of Castile and her sister Juana who was supported by her husband, Alfonso V of Portugal. ... Isabella of Castile (Spanish: Ysabel, Isabel or Isabela) (22 April 1451 - 26 November 1504) was queen of Castile. ... The War of the Castilian Succession (or the Second Castilian Civil War) was fought from 1475 to 1479 between the two claimaints to succeed Henry IV on the Castilian throne: Juana la Beltraneja, supported by Alfonso V of Portugal and Louis XI of France, and Isabella, supported by Ferdinand the...

Henry II (I of Leon) Children include    Prince John (future John I)    Eleanor, Queen of Navarre John I Children include    Henry, Prince of Asturias (future Henry III of Castile and II of Leon)    Ferdinand I of Aragon, Valencia and Sicily Henry III (II of Leon) Children include    John, Prince of Asturias (future John II)    Maria, Queen of Aragon, Valencia, Sicily and Naples John II Children include    Henry, Prince of Asturias (future Henry IV of Castile and III of Leon)    Infanta Isabella (future Isabella I)    Alfonso, Prince of Asturias Henry IV (III of Leon) Children    Joan, Queen of Portugal Isabella I with Ferdinand IV (V of Leon) Children    Isabella, Queen of Portugal    Juan, Prince of Asturias    Joan, Princess of Asturias (future Joan I)    Maria, Queen of Portugal    Catherine, Queen of England Grandchildren include    Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal and Spain Joan with Philip I Children    Charles, Prince of Asturias (future Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire)    Eleanor, Queen of Portugal and France    Isabella, Queen of Denmark and Norway    Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire    Maria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia    Catarina, Queen of Portugal

On 30 May 1475, Afonso V married Joan in Plasencia and prepared for the fighting. In 1476 he invaded Castile, but was defeated in the battle of Toro by Ferdinand II of Aragon, Isabella of Castile's husband. After this, Afonso V tried to procure, without success, an alliance with Louis XI of France. In 1479, the king of Portugal gave up on the pretension and signed a treaty with the Catholic kings. Meanwhile their marriage had been annulled by Pope Sixtus IV on account of their family relation. Juana signed her letters until the day she died, "La Reina" meaning the queen. She thought that she had been cheated out of her inheritance and her aunt sent her to a convent. The House of Trastámara was a dynasty of kings, of Spanish origin, which governed in Castile from 1369 to 1504, in Aragón from 1412 to 1516, in Navarre from 1425 to 1479, and in Naples from 1442 to 1501. ... Image File history File links Blason_Castille_Léon. ... Henry of Trastamara (January 13, 1334 Sevilla - May 29, 1379 Santo Domingo de la Calzada) (Enrique de Trastámara), was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Leonora de Guzman, and half brother to Pedro I the Cruel (or the Lawful, depending on who wrote the history). ... John I (August 24, 1358 – October 9, 1390) (in Spanish: Juan I) was the king of Castile, was the son of Henry II and of his wife Joan, daughter of John Manuel of Villena, head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile. ... Eleanor of Castile (after 1363-27 February 1416) was an infanta of Castile and the Queen consort of Navarre. ... John I (August 24, 1358 – October 9, 1390) (in Spanish: Juan I) was the king of Castile, was the son of Henry II and of his wife Joan, daughter of John Manuel of Villena, head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile. ... 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A drama entitled "Juana la Beltraneja" has been published in Liceus El Portal de las Humanidades by the author Santiago Sevilla. Here the role of Juan Pacheco and Beltrán de la Cueva shows the pernicious influence of certain members of the nobility towards princess Juana.