A new collaboration by José Antonio Senovilla . This time with “I the Queen” .
Henry IV he had a bad reputation because everyone thought he was impotent, since with Blanca de Navarra he did not get offspring and no bastard is known to him with his various mistresses.
Juana was a legitimate heiress daughter, which at that time was already a title of honor, since her father was Enrique IV and her mother was the second wife of her father Juana de Portugal.
Even so, and following the rules of her inheritance, she was soon named Princess of Asturias, which did not help her much because she spent her life kidnapped by the nobility.
It was perhaps rightly suspected that this girl was the daughter of a favorite of the King, a certain Beltrán de la Cueva, so everyone began to call this girl Juana La Beltraneja .
The conspiracy was served by the Marquis of Villena and Archbishop Carrillo, so her father had to bite the bullet and disinherit his daughter.
But the heir he had appointed, who was none other than his brother, died and had to make a treaty with Villena and Carrillo, if friends, it is the agreement known as Concordia de los Toros de Guisando , so the throne would go to Elizabeth her sister.
Juana the Beltraneja She recovered her inheritance when Isabel breached her agreement because she secretly married her friend to her beloved Fernando de Aragón.
When Enrique IV died, it was his mother who had to choose to marry Beltraneja with a Portuguese king Alfonso V el Africano so that she could consolidate her inheritance since Isabel and Fernando were a constant threat.
A new Civil War arose at that time and the future Catholic Kings Isabel and Fernando won. .
A new treaty that of Alcaí§ovas was signed, Alfonso V the African separated definitively from Juana la Beltraneja, who ended up confined in a Portuguese convent until her death.
Her story does not end in the convent, this stage of her life according to many historians, she is the most conspiratorial in history but that is for another post.
Remind the dear reader that in all her writings, this woman without a throne always signed all the documents with a I THE QUEEN until the day of his death.
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