History of Europe

The shortest queen of the Crown of Castile

New collaboration from our friend Senovilla .

Many times our desire to know strange things or questions from future contests invites us to have to do a diligent search to obtain the desired results.

It is not as simple as it seems since once we have found the result we must compare it to make sure we do not fall into a kind of Urban Legend that the only thing we would do is increase it.

Who was the shortest Queen of the Crown of Castile? I asked myself that question the other day, so let's search as our friend Javier Sanz has taught us in his CQC .

The answer took a while to appear since women are not so easy because our history has always put them in the background.

And this one that reigned for a few hours remained hidden in the trunk of some merely sexual memory, since her story was just that, pure sex.

The culprit was King D. Pedro the Cruel who fell madly in love with such a beautiful woman, he persecuted her and harassed her until he took her to the altar in 1354 despite being previously married to Doña Blanca de Navarra.

The wedding night remains in the deepest secret of D. Pedro's lust, he must not have satisfied him enough in a long night of sex, because at dawn he abandoned this woman to her fate since he did not want to know more about her, although he did. that he recognized his son Juan in his will.

He endowed it with a good lordship, that of Dueñas and the people evilly began to call her the Unloved , although she always presumed to be Queen of Castile without being.

This is the shortest story of the Queen of the Crown of Castile, which lasted just hours since she renounced the title when she was despised by such a cruel husband, on a crazy night where she still did not give everything he wanted or he could not take everything she offered him.

But hey! I forgot to mention her name, it is Doña Juana de Castro a queen very difficult to find, despite her unparalleled beauty.


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