AnonyJ
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I find her story fascinating but rather sad, Juana/Joanna of Castile was the elder sister of Katharine of Aragon and she was married off to Philip The Handsome of the Habsburg empire.
She was enthralled by her husband and utterly devoted to him, contemporary reports say literally to the point of madness. He was a notorious womaniser and even after he died when she was pregnant with their sixth child she refused to let him be buried, and travelled for several years with his coffin. She was reported to have periodically opened it to embrace and kiss his corpse and slept next to it. Her cortege only travelled at night and she refused to lodge at nunneries so that other women would not see his dead body and/or fall in love with him.
She has been known as Juana La Loca (Joanna The Mad) but more recent scholarship has questioned whether she was really 'mad' apart from her very extreme devotion to Philip The Handsome.
More here: http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com...-pawn-for-the-men-in-her-family#.XKpX59h7nX4=
She was enthralled by her husband and utterly devoted to him, contemporary reports say literally to the point of madness. He was a notorious womaniser and even after he died when she was pregnant with their sixth child she refused to let him be buried, and travelled for several years with his coffin. She was reported to have periodically opened it to embrace and kiss his corpse and slept next to it. Her cortege only travelled at night and she refused to lodge at nunneries so that other women would not see his dead body and/or fall in love with him.
She has been known as Juana La Loca (Joanna The Mad) but more recent scholarship has questioned whether she was really 'mad' apart from her very extreme devotion to Philip The Handsome.
More here: http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com...-pawn-for-the-men-in-her-family#.XKpX59h7nX4=