John, Prince of Asturias
John of Aragon and Castile ( born June 28, 1478 Seville, † October 4, 1497 in Salamanca), Prince of Asturias from the house Trastámara, was the only son of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. He was married to Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Roman-German King Maximilian I., but died half a year after the marriage.
Marriage negotiations
After the invasion of the French king Charles VIII in Italy and the threat of Naples, which belonged to the area of interest of the house of Aragon, Antwerp joined an emissary of Ferdinand of Aragon with the Roman-German King Maximilian I. on 20 January 1495 an alliance - preliminary contract, in which a marriage of the Infante John ( Juan ) was agreed with his daughter, Margaret. Similarly, the son of Maximilian Philipp was to be married to the Infanta Joanna ( Juana ). This treaty was the precursor to the formation of the Holy League with Pope Alexander VI. , Ferdinand of Aragon, the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan. On November 5, 1495, a contract for the double wedding was ratified in Mechelen, and John and Margaret were married by procuram together. Another contract for the planned double wedding was signed in Ulldecona on January 3, 1496 at the same time of Maximilian in Nördlingen and Ferdinand of Aragon.
Marriage and death
The real wedding of the heir to the Spanish seventeen year old Margarete was held in Burgos until April 3, 1497. Johann was very in love with his wife. At a joint trip to Portugal on the occasion of the marriage of John's older sister Isabella he was seized with a violent fever. He dictated nor a will in which he used Margaret's unborn child as his heir before he died in Salamanca at the 4th or 6th of October a febrile infection. Rumors circulated that he had made love to his wife to death. His body was transferred from Salamanca to Avila, where he was buried in the convent church of Santo Tomás el Real. A few weeks after John's death Margaret brought a stillborn child.
John was the only son of Ferdinand and Isabella, the designated heir to the throne. Through his death and the absence of an heir from his association with Margaret, as well as the death of John's older sister Isabella in 1498 the succession passed to Johanna, the wife of Philip the Fair, and thus to the House of Habsburg.
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Miscellaneous
The two sons of Christopher Columbus, Diego and Fernando Columbus, were Johanns pages. After his death, she entered the service of Isabella.