Joanna I of Spain (Tudor Line)

Joanna I of Castile was born on 6 November 1479 in Toledo, Spain to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and was a sister to Catherine of Aragon. In 1495 she was bethroved to the son of Maxmilian I, Holy Roman Emperor called Philip the Handsome. She fell in love with him and they were married in 1496. In 1504 her mother died and she inherited Castile and Philip instantly proclaimed himself Prince of Castile, in 1505 Maxmilian remarried, but made a treaty, that Joanna and Philip would inherit the title and that Philip and Maxmilian would sign every matter of state from now on. Philip however died in 1506, before Joanna even became the Queen of Spain. That happened in 1516 when Ferdinand died. In this death the crowns of Castile, Léon and Aragon were joined and with exeception of Navarre, Catalonia and Valencia she was now queen of the whole Spain. Before her husbands death they had 6 childern: Eleanor, Charles, Isabella, Ferdinand, Mary, Catherine. She supported her son in the Protestant Wars of 1522 - 1523. Charles gave her the county of Tyrol which was given to Ferdinand. In 1540 Sigismund I the Old asked her daughter Catherine to marry his son Sigismund Augustus. In this marriage the web of alliances now spread all over Europe (Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Hunguary, Poland and Denmark). She died of old age in 1557 making Charles I the King of Spain and Germany, a tragic union whic caused a revolution when Charles tried to join Spain into the empire.