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Juana Manuel
Juana and one of her daughters, painted by Jaime Serra in the mid-fourteenth century
Queen consort of Castile and León
Tenure1369–1379
Born1339
Died27 March 1381 (aged 41–42)
Salamanca
Burial
Cathedral of Toledo
SpouseHenry II of Castile
IssueJohn I of Castile
Eleanor, Queen of Navarre
Infanta Joanna
HouseCastilian House of Ivrea
FatherJuan Manuel, Prince of Villena
MotherBlanca Núñez de Lara
ReligionRoman Catholicism
Coat of arms as queen consort

Juana Manuel of Castile (1339 – 27 March 1381) was Queen consort of Castile from 1369 until 1379. She also was the heiress of Escalona, Villena, Peñafiel and Lara, as well as Lady of Biscay.

Family

She was the daughter of the Infante Juan Manuel of Castile (1282–1348) and his second wife Blanca Núñez de Lara de La Cerda. Her mother Blanca (d. 1347) was a descendant of the Lords of Biscay and of Lara and of Alfonso X's eldest son (Fernando de la Cerda). She was the last legitimate member of the House of Ivrea.

Marriage

Her father had been for five years a serious enemy of King Alfonso XI, his former protégé, and the king wished to neutralize or absorb the might of the Peñafiel family. Although Juana was not the heiress (yet), already in her youth she had to go along with royal wishes. The king's very influential concubine, Leonor de Guzmán, wanted to obtain some high prestige and property to her eldest son and had her eyes on the young Juana. On 27 July 1350 her brother and guardian, Fernando Manuel of Peñafiel, had to marry his young sister to Henry (1333–79), eldest of the illegitimate sons of Alfonso XI of Castile. This brought Henry certain lands.

However it was later that Juana's relatives' heirless deaths made Juana the great heiress she turned out to be, while her husband became threat to the royal power. In 1369, he became King Henry II of Castile, after he deposed and murdered his half-brother to take the throne.

They had the following children:

Inheritance

Tombs of Queen Juana Manuel.

In 1361 (at the death of her teenage niece Blanca,[1] daughter of her brother Fernando Manuel who himself had died in c 1350 without other children) she inherited Villena, Escalona and Peñafiel.[2] Because Juana was a maternal granddaughter of La Palomilla, from her another cousin, Isabel de Lara who was murdered in 1361 [3] and her young daughter Florentina [4] (d after 1365), she also inherited Lara and Biscay. In 1369, she became queen of Castile and León.

When in 1381 she died and left her inheritance to her son, Biscay finally was united with Castile, and ultimately Spain. The Basque people remember her for that.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Marek, Miroslav. "(Blanca's death)". Genealogy.EU.[self-published source][better source needed]
  2. ^ Template:MLCC
  3. ^ Marek, Miroslav. "(Isabel's death)". Genealogy.EU.[self-published source][better source needed]
  4. ^ Marek, Miroslav. "(Florentina's death)". Genealogy.EU.[self-published source][better source needed]
Juana Manuel
Born: circa 1339 Died: 27 March 1381
Regnal titles
Preceded by Queen consort of Castile and León
1359–1369 		Succeeded by
Spanish nobility
Preceded by Lady of Villena,
Escalona and Peñafiel
1361–1381 		Incorporated into the
Crown of Castile
Preceded by Lord of Biscay and Lara
1370–1379 		Succeeded by
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