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Joanna of Aragon and Castile (Spanish: Juana de Aragón y de Castilla), best known as Joanna the Mad and as mother of the Charles V, was the second daughter of Ferdinand, king of Aragon, and Isabella. The figure of Queen Joanna attracted authors, composers, and artists of the romanticist movement, due to her characteristics of unrequited love, obsessive jealousy, and undying fidelity. Many later authors have followed this trend of portraying Joanna as a lovesick, and later griefstricken, woman, preferring to focus on her love for her husband than on her mental illness.

Late September of 1505, at the age of 28. Juana's mind completely snapped under the strain of Philip the Handsome's death. She would not be parted from the coffin and, in February 1509, retreated to the isolated fortress of Tordesillas, where she was to remain for 46 years until her death, bearing the title Queen of Castile until the end. Juana had borne six children in her marriage: Charles, Eleanor, Isabel, Mary, Ferdinand and Catherine.

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