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Joan of Portugal
Joan of Portugal (Portuguese: Joana [ʒuˈɐnɐ]; 31 March 1439 – 13 June 1475) was the Queen of Castile as the second wife of King Henry IV of Castile. The posthumous daughter of King Edward of Portugal and Eleanor of Aragon, she was born in the Quinta do Monte Olivete Villa, Almada.
Joan was born as one of nine children of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon. Joan was born on 31 March 1439 at Quinta do Monte Olivete (modern-day Almada), after her father's death.
In 1440, Eleanor was politically outmaneuvered from the regency of Joan's brother Afonso and was forced into exile in Castile together with the infant Joan. In Castile, Joan and her mother lived at the monastery of Santa María de Medina del Campo, dependent on charity. Joan's mother was deeply unhappy as she longed for the children she had to leave behind in Portugal. In 1444, Eleanor applied for them to return to Portugal, but she died in February 1445 at Toledo. There were rumors that she had been poisoned.
After her mother's death, Joan was taken under the guardianship of her uncle Peter and was raised at court in Lisbon.
On 21 May 1455 in Cordoba, she married King Henry IV of Castile, who had his first marriage to Blanche II of Navarre annulled after thirteen years of marriage. It was rumoured that their marriage had never been consummated due to the king's impotence.[citation needed] Henry and Joan shared the same maternal grandparents; Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque (making them first cousins). They also shared the same paternal great-grandfather; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (making them second cousins).
Though a bride without a significant dowry, Joan had valuable connections to offer Henry. Apart from being the sister of the king of Portugal, she also had influential relatives, such as her older sister Eleanor, Holy Roman Empress, and their paternal aunt Isabella, Duchess of Burgundy.
In February 1462, six years after Joan's marriage to Henry, she gave birth to a daughter, also named Joan, called La Beltraneja because of rumours that she was in fact the daughter of Don Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque, who was suspected of being Joan's lover.
Henry banished Joan from the royal court and she went to live in Coca at the castle of Henry's supporter, Bishop Fonseca. She soon fell in love with Bishop Fonseca's nephew; they embarked on a sexual affair, which resulted in Joan bearing her lover two illegitimate sons. Henry subsequently declared their marriage had never been legal and thus divorced her in 1468.
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Joan of Portugal
Joan of Portugal (Portuguese: Joana [ʒuˈɐnɐ]; 31 March 1439 – 13 June 1475) was the Queen of Castile as the second wife of King Henry IV of Castile. The posthumous daughter of King Edward of Portugal and Eleanor of Aragon, she was born in the Quinta do Monte Olivete Villa, Almada.
Joan was born as one of nine children of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon. Joan was born on 31 March 1439 at Quinta do Monte Olivete (modern-day Almada), after her father's death.
In 1440, Eleanor was politically outmaneuvered from the regency of Joan's brother Afonso and was forced into exile in Castile together with the infant Joan. In Castile, Joan and her mother lived at the monastery of Santa María de Medina del Campo, dependent on charity. Joan's mother was deeply unhappy as she longed for the children she had to leave behind in Portugal. In 1444, Eleanor applied for them to return to Portugal, but she died in February 1445 at Toledo. There were rumors that she had been poisoned.
After her mother's death, Joan was taken under the guardianship of her uncle Peter and was raised at court in Lisbon.
On 21 May 1455 in Cordoba, she married King Henry IV of Castile, who had his first marriage to Blanche II of Navarre annulled after thirteen years of marriage. It was rumoured that their marriage had never been consummated due to the king's impotence.[citation needed] Henry and Joan shared the same maternal grandparents; Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque (making them first cousins). They also shared the same paternal great-grandfather; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (making them second cousins).
Though a bride without a significant dowry, Joan had valuable connections to offer Henry. Apart from being the sister of the king of Portugal, she also had influential relatives, such as her older sister Eleanor, Holy Roman Empress, and their paternal aunt Isabella, Duchess of Burgundy.
In February 1462, six years after Joan's marriage to Henry, she gave birth to a daughter, also named Joan, called La Beltraneja because of rumours that she was in fact the daughter of Don Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque, who was suspected of being Joan's lover.
Henry banished Joan from the royal court and she went to live in Coca at the castle of Henry's supporter, Bishop Fonseca. She soon fell in love with Bishop Fonseca's nephew; they embarked on a sexual affair, which resulted in Joan bearing her lover two illegitimate sons. Henry subsequently declared their marriage had never been legal and thus divorced her in 1468.
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