WEBVTT - Juana La Loca 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:13.680 and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Minkie listener discretion is advised. Culturally, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:18.759 we are obsessed with the idea of women going mad. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.080 It's a theme that's pervaded literature for hundreds of years. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:28.800 It's a woman sometimed, young, usually beautiful, who becomes a 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:34.479 tragic figure hold away in a gothic, decrepit mansion. The 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:40.000 woman loses her mind and then usually her life. There 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.480 are too many examples to name, the Lady of Shelot, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.920 Cathy from Weathering Heights, Bertha and Janier, Miss Havisham, and 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:55.480 of course, perhaps most iconically, Ophelia. Feminist literary critic and 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:01.120 Princeton professor Elaine show Walter wrote, Ophelia became the prototype 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.560 not only of the deranged woman in Victorian literature and art, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.600 but also of the young female asylum patient. In fiction. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.199 The madwoman usually comes from a society of rigid gender rules. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:19.920 Take Ophelia again. Ophelia's madness is the thing that allows 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.399 her to break free of the limitations and restrictions on 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.120 women in her society. In the play, her hair that 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:31.120 was once neatly covered and pulled back is after she 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:36.959 goes mad, let down, wavy and untamed at its full length, and, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.479 as Elaine show Walter points out, Ophelia also breaks free 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:47.080 of her sexual propriety. Ophelia becomes provocative, singing body songs 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.880 and giving away flowers in a not so subtle allusion 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:56.040 to her deflowering herself. That brings up another aspect of 0:01:56.080 --> 0:02:00.160 the pop culture portrayal of the woman gone mad, that 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.520 madness is the inverse of proper female decorum when it 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.720 comes to sexuality. A mad woman is one who wants, 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:17.000 one who has explicit female desires. In essay on Ophelia, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.639 Emmy Harmana writes about the idea of mad women as 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:25.680 a rado maniacs. She writes this is based on masculine 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.760 assumptions that women are more inclined to go mad since 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.040 they are closer to the irrational by nature, and that 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:36.320 young women's madness is more often than not caused by 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:42.280 sexual frustration of unrequited love. There it is the woman 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.360 who goes crazy because she wants a man she cannot have. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:51.280 Perhaps it's even the origin of a particularly sexist modern 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.880 trend of dudes telling their friends that all of their 0:02:54.960 --> 0:03:00.600 clingy x is are quote crazy. The link between sexual 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:06.000 frustration or desire and madness or hysteria in women might 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.960 also help to explain the Victorian invention of the vibrator, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:16.280 used to induce what doctors called paroxysms in women in 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:21.200 order to restore their sanity. But the stories when it 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:26.280 comes to our fictional heroines don't usually end well. Mad 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.919 women get a brief chance to break free from social conventions, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.760 to scream in a society that forced them to whisper. 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:40.360 But then these women's are disposed of. They die by 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.680 beautiful suicide in flowy white gowns and water if they're 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.920 beautiful like Ophelia or the Lady of lat or by 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.400 fire if they're not as beautiful like Miss Havisham or 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:58.400 Bertha in Jane Eyre, or more sinisterly, they're disposed of, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:03.520 deposited in a asylums or the attic, like the heroine 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:08.400 of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story The Yellow Wallpaper. If 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:12.600 you've never read The Yellow Wallpaper, you absolutely should. It 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:16.680 was written in eighteen two, and the story is framed 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.880 as the diary of a young woman who suffers from 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:25.040 what might be in modern parlance called postnatal depression, and so, 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.440 after this woman gives birth, her husband decides that the 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:33.480 best treatment for her is isolating her in an attic room. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.719 Over the course of the story, the narrator begins to hallucinate, 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:42.760 to become as mad as her either sinister or misguided 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:48.000 husband believed her to be. Was the narrator mad all along? 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.880 Or did the prolonged period of boredom and isolation drive 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.840 her crazy? That brings us to the unlucky subject of 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:02.000 today's podcast. Want To of Castile, or as she's known 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:07.039 more colloquially, Juana la Loca. The Juanna was technically Queen 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.000 of Castile for over fifty years and of Argon for 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.919 thirty of those. Her title was in name only. For 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.640 the vast majority of her reign. She was imprisoned in 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.520 a castle in tordisse Us, declared insane by the men 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.000 in her life who wanted to rule in her place, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.960 first her husband and then her father and then her son. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:36.520 As a literary figure, Juanna is irresistible. Her supposed madness 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.600 was brought on by her obsessive love for her husband. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.680 After his death, they say that Wanna refuse to let 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.360 them bury the body so that she could continually open 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:53.280 the casket and kiss his cold face. There maybe couldn't 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.800 be a better example of an Ophelia archetype in real life, 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.200 love sick over a man to the point that it 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:04.279 destroyed her sanity. But it's impossible to note to what 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.719 extent the stories are true, or whether they were just 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.880 convenient propaganda for her father to use in his claim 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.080 to her kingdom. There are versions of Juana's story that 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.880 try to paint her as a maligned feminist of history, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.880 a woman who was perfectly in her right mind, wrongfully 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.120 accused of madness on purpose by men who knew that 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:31.080 they could have that power. But some of one's behavior 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.200 was genuinely strange, and as an heir of the deeply 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:40.039 inbred Hapsburg family, mental illness was an occupational hazard for 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:45.440 European monarchs. By the end of Juana's imprisonment, after decades 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:51.120 in isolation, it's irrefutable that her mental condition had collapsed, 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.120 but plenty of kings ruled freely, even as they behaved 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:59.720 in ways that were charitably called eccentric. Being a woman 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.400 made it easy for Juana's rivals to dispose of her 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:09.039 and to turn her life into easy, appealing fiction. She's 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.480 the type of story about a madwoman that we can't 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:17.600 help but want to tell over and over again. I'm 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:31.680 Danish Schwartz, and this is noble blood. Even if you've 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.280 never heard of Juana before, you've probably heard of her parents, 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:40.760 Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of Argon and Castile, respectively, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.280 but their union meant that the pair of them ruled 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:49.120 a dynastically united Spain. The two of them are famous 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.559 for funding Christopher Columbus's exploration of what was then called 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.240 the New World, and for being the Catholic monarchs that 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.160 began the Spanish Inquisition, and for the conversion of all 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.480 of the Jews and Muslims in Spain. You've probably also 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:09.320 heard of Juanna's younger sister, Catherine of Aragon, who became 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.880 Henry the eighth first wife. Juanna was never supposed to 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.840 be a queen. She had an older brother and an 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.280 older sister in line before her, but still, when she 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.840 was young, she was incredibly well educated, so that one 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.720 day she would be ready for an advantageous marriage. That 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.520 means that she was taught all of the languages of 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.880 the Iberian Peninsula, Castilian, Catalan and Galico Portuguese, as well 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:41.040 as French and Latin to her religious parents Dismay. As 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.920 she was educated, Juanna became something of a religious skeptic, 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.319 but none of that mattered really When she turned sixteen 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.800 and it was finally time for her to fulfill her 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:56.160 real purpose marriage. Juanna was betrothed to Philip of Flanders, 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:01.840 Duke of Burgundy, also known as Philip the Handsome. This 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.360 is where I will say, if you are near your 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.760 phone or a computer, you should absolutely google a photo 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.960 of Philip the Handsome, just to get an idea of 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.880 what passed for good looks in the fifteenth century. Baby 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.719 bangs on men were clearly a look that worked back then, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.960 but by all accounts, Philip was quite the charmer, and 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.240 the pair were married first by double proxy and then 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:33.440 in person in four when Juana arrived in Flanders with 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:39.240 a fleet of over one hundred ships. Their marriage was 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.160 supposed to be on October, but the story goes that 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.240 one arrived and met Philip in person on the and 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.960 was so immediately overcome with love or lust that the 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.520 pair of them begged to be married that very day 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:59.719 that they could consummate their relationship that night. Philip's handsomeness 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.920 clearly worked on Wana, and the two of them had 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.959 three children while they lived in Flanders. It was during 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.079 this period that something unexpected was happening to the line 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:15.800 of succession back in Spain. A year after Juana married Philip, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:20.480 her brother Juan, the heir to the throne, died, But 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:24.880 to the great relief of everyone, One's wife, Margaret of Austria, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.880 was seven months pregnant at the time, and the hope 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.600 was that she would have a son and a new 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.840 heir who could take his or her father's place in 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.720 the line of succession. But that December, Margaret gave birth 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.600 to a stillborn girl, with that line ended. Next in 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.559 line was one as older sister, Isabella, the Queen of Portugal, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:52.000 wife of Manuel of Portugal. People in Spain were a 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.800 little resisent about a female queen, but the good news 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.680 for everyone was that Isabella was also pregnant and she 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.920 had a son that would assuage all of those concerns. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.680 And lo and behold, a son was born, Miguel in August. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.400 But Isabella of Portugal had had a difficult pregnancy, during 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:20.000 which she had traveled extensively and that might partly explain 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:26.080 why hours after childbirth Isabella died. The kingdom had little Miguel, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.679 but not for long. The infant Prince of Portugal and 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.440 the Spanish Kingdoms, the boy who would have united all 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.880 of the Iberian kingdoms, died when he was just two 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:46.640 years old in his grandmother Isabella's arms. So in just 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:51.160 three years, Juana became next in line to be queen, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.200 and she was officially recognized by the legislative bodies, the Corteses. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.080 But during her time away in Flanders, rumors had already 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.760 begun to spread about her mental state. Juanna, who had 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.439 been madly in love with her husband Philip the Handsome 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.480 since the moment she saw him, was also wildly jealous 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.280 when it came to her husband's infidelities. For what it 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.000 was worth, her jealousy was merited. He was a philanderer. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.520 Once Wanna caught her husband in the throes of passion 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.520 with one of her ladies in waiting, a woman who 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.640 was known in courts for her luscious, shiny, long hair, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.960 Wanna shared the woman's hair off herself and then left 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:41.240 the locks on Philip's pillows. A tom Hagen horsehead maneuver 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:47.320 centuries before the Godfather. Wanna desperately wanted her husband to 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:51.400 love her to stop his wandering eye. She tried love 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:56.240 potions and tonics literal snake oil, all to no effect. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.880 Wanna and Philip had wild fights. Sometimes those fights would 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.560 end in Philip literally confining and locking Juana in her rooms, 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.400 where she would refuse food and sleep as a tactic 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:16.520 for control. That was a frequent strategy when Juana Tantrum 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.880 in fifteen o four, her mother Isabella, was sick with 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.160 a fever, and Juana went to visit her in Castile. 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.400 It's unclear exactly what happened, but there was some sort 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.080 of altercation there, either between Juanna and her mother or 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:34.480 between Juanna and her husband back home in Flanders. That 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.960 meant that Juanna wanted to go back home immediately through France. 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.960 The problem was Castile was at war with France, and 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.720 it would be incredibly dangerous for her to transport herself 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.200 on land. Castile might be at war with France, Juanna declared, 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.920 but I'm not. She was completely irrational in her determination, 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.560 so much so that her traveling companion in Bishop Fonesca, 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.800 had to physically take her horses back to the stables 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:09.200 himself to prevent Juanna from leaving. When Wanna reached the 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:13.800 lock stables, she screamed and shook the bars and stayed 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:19.920 up all night, refusing the basic comforts of food or blankets. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.400 So that was one as reputation when later that year 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:28.840 her mother, Isabella died, Argon and Castile being separate kingdoms, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.040 meant that upon her mother's death, Juana became the Queen 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:37.320 of Castile, although Isabella had stipulated that if Juana was 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.600 unfit or unwilling to rule, Juana's dad, Ferdinand, would be 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:46.880 allowed to govern until Juana's eldest son turned twenty. But 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:51.880 Ferdinand had been ruling a united Argon and Castile alongside 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.280 his now deceased wife, and he was not willing to 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.680 let that go with one and her husband still in Flanders. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.640 For Ferdinand printed coins that said fernand and Joanna King 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.160 and Queen of Castile and tried to persuade the Cortes 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.480 that Juanna was so ill that she would not be 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.360 able to govern, which led to the Cortes appointing him 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.600 Ferdinand as the kingdom's administrator and governor and as Juan 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.680 as guardian. But Philip the Handsome, Juana's husband, wasn't going 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:29.000 to take that sitting down. He wanted to rule Castile, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.480 and so he also printed coins with his and his 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.560 wife's names. For her part, Juanna attempted to dispel rumors 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.200 about her insanity. She wrote a letter from Brussels to 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.760 a signor de vere that I haven't been able to 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.960 find translated into English, but the general idea is that 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:53.040 she acknowledges the stories about her jealous passions, but that 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.760 jealousy is a trait that she inherited from her wonderful mother, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.960 whom they all acknowledge was just one of the most 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.120 excellent women in the world. But Ferdinand had already gotten 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.520 the Cortees to appoint him as one as guardian, and 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.920 Tuana and phil the Handsome were still in Flanders, so 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.200 Ferdinand moved in to try to assert his power. He 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:18.880 was also looking to edge Juana out of succession entirely 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.480 by getting married again with the intention of producing an 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.360 air Ferdinand's second wife was Germaine de Foix, the niece 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.560 of Louis the twelfth of France, and in classic Hapsburg fashion, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.400 Ferdinand's own grand niece. The two never produced an air, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:41.040 and the move actually backfired on Ferdinand, whose pro French 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:45.000 policies only bolstered support for the husband and wife pair 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.720 of Juana and Philip. With the nobles on their side, 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.240 Juanna and Philip made their way to Castile to try 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:57.000 to cement their power. Although Ferdinand and Philip were rivals here, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.200 they did put their differences aside for the mutue really 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.920 beneficial arrangement, where they met secretly to declare Juanna unfit 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:10.359 to rule because of her quote infirmities and sufferings. Ferdinand 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:14.080 did briefly attempt to challenge Philip for Castile, but knowing 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.480 a losing battle when he saw one pretty quickly, Ferdinand 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:25.960 retreated back to our gun. So Philip the Handsome was 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.800 King of Castile with all of the power that he 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:33.760 took from his supposedly infirm wife. But he wouldn't have 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.359 the power for long. Philip got sick, and though the 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.320 official cause of death was typhoid, many people thought that 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.199 he was poisoned, possibly on the orders of Ferdinand. Mad 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:52.199 with love or just mad, Juanna was bereft, Philip the 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.760 Handsome was just when he died. Juanna was pregnant with 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.359 their sixth child. It's at the point that, if you 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:07.280 believe the stories, Juanna had a breakdown. She refused to 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:11.560 be parted from her husband's dead body for months. They say, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.960 she didn't leave the side of the embalmed corpse, and 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:19.080 she frequently requested that the casket be opened over and 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.240 over again so that she could gaze upon her dead 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.439 husband's handsome face once more and kiss his cold and 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.159 waxy lips. At least dead in his coffin, Philip the 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:35.680 Handsome couldn't incite his wife's jealousy, or so you might think, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.640 I want to accompanied the casket to its final resting 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.639 place in Granada, and she insisted that the procession only 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:47.360 travel at night so that other women wouldn't see Philip 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:51.520 the Handsome's body and be tempted by the corpse. It 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:54.280 was during these travels that Juanna gave birth to a 0:18:54.400 --> 0:19:01.080 daughter named Catherine for her sister at She finally let 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.560 them put Philip's body in the ground for a good 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:08.720 Wanna returned to a castile plagued by disaster, with a 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.359 literal plague first of all, but also famine. Juanna was 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.879 out of her depth. On one hand, some of those 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.240 problems would have been impossible for a monarch to solve, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.800 but Juanna also probably did suffer from some mental illness 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.160 that was wildly exacerbated by the death of her husband. 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.960 It was a loss that she would never be able 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.520 to get over. For whatever reason, Juana was incapable of 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.680 ruling her kingdom effectively against her will. The Cortes set 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.679 up a regency council for Juana in fifteen o seven, 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:46.760 and Juanna just didn't have the resources or the tactical 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.760 ability to raise the support she would need in order 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.359 to protect her right to the throne. Just as the 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.920 plague and famine were finally letting up the next year, 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:02.160 her father, Ferdinand swooped in he who was promptly placed 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:08.359 as regent. In fifteen o nine, Ferdinand confined his daughter 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:12.119 to the royal palace at tortoisse Us on the basis 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:17.400 of her supposed insanity. There are rumors about her paranoia, 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:21.720 suicidal urges, and her necrophilia with the dead body of 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.480 her husband, but it's tricky to parse out exactly what's 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:31.200 true and what isn't. It's always challenging to retroactively diagnose 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.800 illness in historical figures, mental or otherwise. But it's especially 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.439 tricky here because it was in Ferdinand and Philip's interest 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.399 for the general public to think that Juana was so 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.639 insane that they could rule in her stead, and we 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.399 know for a fact that both had forged letters and 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:56.760 documents from her at different points to suit their purposes. Ferdinand, 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.520 one his father, was never able to have a new heir, 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:03.639 and so, though he didn't like it, one as eldest son, Charles, 0:21:03.880 --> 0:21:06.520 was the heir to the thrones of Argon and Castile. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:11.440 Ferdinand especially hated Charles because he was raised in Flanders 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:15.720 and Ferdinand saw his grandson as a foreigner. Fernand tried 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.000 to instead put another one of juan as sons, a 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.560 younger son who was raised in Castile, next in line 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:27.199 for the throne, but it didn't Ultimately work, Charles and 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.240 port Juana were left the kingdom's jointly when Ferdinand died, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:34.919 although for a brief period after his death, Argon was 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.840 ruled by Ferdinand's illegitimate son Alonso. They say that for 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:43.119 the rest of his life, Ferdinand only visited his daughter 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:48.440 Juana twice while she was in prison. Young Charles inherited 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:52.399 the kingdom and also custody of his mad mother in 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.159 tord to see Us, where she was kept for the 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:59.160 rest of her life. Charles the Fifth in Spain would 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.280 go on to be the Holy Roman Emperor as Charles 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:08.240 the First. For forty five years, Juanna remained imprisoned. There 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.280 was one year where she was briefly freed by rebels 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.960 against Charles, but he swiftly put an end to that 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.880 and put Juana back in toward to see Us. Charles 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:22.280 instituted a policy of isolation for his mother. Quote it 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:25.320 seems to me that the best and most suitable thing 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:28.439 for you to do, he wrote to her attendants, is 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.040 to make sure that no person speaks with her Majesty, 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:35.840 for no good could come of it. The longer Juana 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.200 was confined, the worse her condition became. Although it's hard 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:42.760 to pretend that being locked up and more or less 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:47.080 ignored for a few decades wouldn't make someone well lose 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:51.199 their mind. By the end of her life she was paranoid, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.800 but the nuns wanted to kill her. Juanna refuse to 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:59.159 eat or sleep, or bathe or change her clothes. She 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:03.520 died at age seventy five on Good Friday in fifteen fifty. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.960 They buried Wana in the royal chapel, beside her parents 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.920 and her husband. And even though her life ended there 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:15.879 alone and all but forgotten, all six of one as 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.560 children would go on to become monarchs in their own 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:23.320 right France, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, and Portugal. 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.040 Whatever mental illness they might have inherited from their mother, 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:36.080 they also inherited her royal blood. That's the story of 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:39.480 Juanna la Loca. But keep listening after a brief sponsor break, 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:42.160 to hear a little bit more about one of her 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:53.200 most macabre relatives. I think you're gonna like this one. 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:57.040 The part of juan a story that tends to get 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.959 the most attention, perhaps justifiably, is the exhimation of her 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:07.440 husband's corpse and her rumored necrophilia. But there's another story 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:10.440 about a dead body in the nobility of the Iberian 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:14.760 Peninsula that I think is worth our attention. Peter, the 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:18.280 first King of Portugal, was a direct ancestor of Juana, 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:21.840 albeit one almost two hundred years before she was born. 0:24:22.720 --> 0:24:25.440 He was in love with a woman named Inez de Castro, 0:24:25.640 --> 0:24:28.800 and they were forbidden to marry. And though the story 0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:32.320 of their lives are fascinating and maybe even a story 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:36.720 for another future podcast. It's the story of Inez's death, 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:41.000 or rather her life after death, that I think seems 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:44.960 appropriate to talk about at the moment. Inessa had only 0:24:45.000 --> 0:24:48.639 been Peter's mistress in her lifetime, and when she died, 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:52.280 he wanted to find a way to legitimize their children 0:24:52.400 --> 0:24:55.760 in the line of succession. He claimed that he had 0:24:55.800 --> 0:24:58.919 secretly married Annez before she died, but there was no 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:02.360 proof of that. The Pope refused to recognize that secret 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:05.280 marriage or the legitimacy of the children that they had, 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.280 so in an attempt to force the court to recognize 0:25:09.280 --> 0:25:12.360 her as the legitimate queen, and as a show of 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.879 his love for her and his power, rumor has it 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:19.679 that Peter exhumed in as his body from her grave, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:23.359 dressed the body in all of the regalia of a 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:29.439 massive coronation dress Jules robe for and crown, and held 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:33.479 a coronation for his queen even though she was just 0:25:33.680 --> 0:25:39.040 a dead body. Peter then forced every single noble in 0:25:39.160 --> 0:25:43.240 his court to kiss the hem of his dead love's robes, 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:49.119 and then to kiss her cold waxy hands. 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