Daughter of the most emblematic and popular kings in the history of Spain , the Catholic Monarchs and wife of a renowned king with a convenient heritage and alliance, Felipe el Hermoso ; Juana I de Castilla , popularly known as Juana la loca was the product of numerous speculations that were not born after her death but during her adolescence.Myth or pathology? many historical facts encourage the possible reasons that could feed the imbalance of the heiress (by chance) of the crown of Castilla and Aragon .
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In the beginning, it is necessary to highlight the well-known event she had as soon as she met him (at that time) future husband: simply a fleeting crush, which caused the marriage in advance and under High secret of the lovers, taking a small honeymoon of two days out of the bubbles and the jocular royal celebration.On their return they formally performed the ceremony, under the suspicious look of King Fernando II of Aragon .At that time, Juana was only 16 years old.
During his stay in Flanders with her husband or, many visitors to the court said that Juana lived constantly isolated, also maintaining that her husband did not pay too much attention, and even spent days without eating, behaving strangely, with a hint of constant passivity.Many people began to see these strange attitudes, beginning to accuse Juana as crazy , holding that they would have to be locked up.
But it was not the general public who only sustained this.Later her own husband, Philip the Beautiful would decide to lock her up definitively, a fact that she could not conceive in life, since she died shortly after.
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But the true fact that characterized Juana from his supposed madness took place in the The castle of La Mota , in Medina del Campo , when Juana decided to return to her husband and children, a fact that her parents had forbidden her to remain with her newborn son in Spain .
As expected, Juana found the castle's doors closed and by order of the kings, his sequito did not answer him.When he saw no way out in the Castle, Juana decided to remain seated in front of the access gate, exclaiming desperately during the entire night that they had her prisoner.The legend began, and this was one of the first events that gave more talk about his madness.He still lacked the death of her husband, that of her mother, the inheritance of the crown and her confinement in the palace of Tordesillas , where he would remain there until his death...almost 50 years later.
Was it then Juana I of Castile really crazy? Only history will know the truth.
Via | National Geographic History
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