Juana EnrÃquez
Juana Enríquez y Fernández de Córdoba ( * 1425 in Torrelobatón, † February 13, 1468 in Zaragoza ) was a Castilian noblewoman and through her marriage to John of Aragon Queen of the Kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon. About her son Ferdinand II of Aragon she is the grandmother of Joan of madness rings and the great-grandmother of the Emperor Charles V..
Juana Enríquez was a daughter of Fadrique Enríquez, Señor de Melgar y Medina de Rioseco, Admiral of Castile, and Maria Fernández de Córdoba. Fadrique Enríquez († 1473 ) in turn was a son of Alonso Enriquez de Córdoba y Angulo ( 1354-1429 ), Admiral of Castile, and Señor de Medina de Rioseco, and a grandson of Fadrique Alfonso de Castilla ( 1333-1358 ), an illegitimate son of King Alfonso XI. of Castile (1311-1350) and Leonor de Guzman and twin brother of King Henry II (see master list of the House of Burgundy - Ivrea ).
She married John of Aragon on April 1, 1444 Torrelobatón, three years after the death of his first wife, Queen Blanche of Navarre. Since John, although he was only de jure uxoris King of Navarre, Navarre government did not issue after the death of Blanka to his eldest son Charles of Viana, Juana was by marriage to the Queen of Navarre. Understandably, they supported his position, even he called the throne of Charlemagne on his youngest daughter from his marriage to Blanche, Eleanor of Navarre, transferred, again without firing power. When Charles died in 1461, she was suspected of having ordered his poisoning. She fled to Girona, where she faced the protection of the bishop.
Three years ago Juana was by the death of her brother Alfonso V of Aragon - again as the wife of John - become the queen of Aragon, Majorca, Valencia and Sicily.
Juana's children with John II were:
- Ferdinand the Catholic (1452-1516)
- Johanna (1454-1517); ∞ 1476 Ferdinand I, King of Naples
Juana sought in the last years of her life after her son Ferdinand to marry Isabella of Castile (1451-1504), the half-sister and heiress presumptive of King Henry IV, but they did not live to the success of their efforts. She died on 13 February 1468 Breast cancer, a year before the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic monarchs later, was closed.