https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_I_de_Castilla
Hola, amigos de Ecency. Pido permiso para contarles, en esta, mi primera vez en la comunidad, la terrible historia de Juana la Loca.
Decían que estaba loca Juana, y nada más incierto en esta vida. Era una de las calumnias que había inventado la corona española. Juana I de Castilla, reina de Castilla, jamás había estado loca, todo lo contrario.
Dicen los que la conocieron bien, que era de tez muy blanca, nariz fina y el cabello rubio, y que desde pequeña era hermosa. Inteligente en demasía para la época, tenía aptitudes para la música y aprendió el latín, pues entonces nada más lejos que una joven loca, pero se había convertido en un valioso ornamento para cualquier corte de castillo de la rica Europa.
Solo con 16 años ya estaba prometida con un hombre al que no conocía, porque Los Reyes Católicos de España, sus padres, así lo quisieron. Ella, no podía sostener aquella farsa en la que convertirían su vida para siempre.
Los monarcas tampoco concibieron que a su hija le gustara bañarse, lo que conoció con una de las doncellas árabes que la servían. Nunca mantuvieron ideas saludables con relación a ella, porque adelantada a las mujeres que la rodeaban, tenía momentos de rabia o indignación, como por ejemplo cuando atacó a una de las damas de la corte, porque desconfiaba de ella y de su esposo. Por tales motivos, se sospechaba todo el tiempo de su falta de cordura.
Siendo muy joven enviuda, dicen que su esposo, Felipe el Hermoso, tomó agua helada, pero ella entendía que era veneno. Así, vestida de negro y sin entristecerse por tal noticia, se niega rotundamente a aceptar ninguna de las actividades legales concernientes al reino. Fernando, su padre, la declara demente y la encierra en un castillo, porque había perdido los deseos de vivir y se negaba a todo, incluso a mirar la vida. Allí, por un buen tiempo, se expone a una huelga de hambre y por ese motivo es golpeada y obligada a comer, cosa que no quería porque solamente ya deseaba morir.
De esta brutal forma, a la edad de 66 años fallece, después de ser juzgada como loca y encerrada por casi medio siglo. Se dice que esta reina, nunca reinó; nunca quiso casarse con ese rey, olvidó detenerse a vivir y solo pretendía mirar al vacío. Unos opinaban sencillamente que Juana sufría una enajenación, otros, que estuviera poseída.
No fingía; había sido abandonada por su familia; había luchado durante toda su vida para ser una buena hija, esposa y madre, pero su padre y su hijo la habían incapacitado y encerrado de por vida, quizás traicionada, porque las mujeres en ese período no eran realmente adecuadas para representar a la nobleza, ni a nada en la vida.
¡Gracias por leerme y acercarte a la historia de Juana!
Me gustaría conocer tus comentarios.
Fotos tomadas de Wikipedia y con mi Xiaomi Redmi 9ª.
Traductor usado: Deepl translator
Crazy or betrayed?
Hello, friends of Ecency. I ask permission to tell you, in this, my first time in the community, the terrible story of Joan the Mad.
They said that Juana was crazy, and nothing could be more certain in this life. It was one of the slanders that the Spanish crown had invented. Juana I of Castile, queen of Castile, had never been crazy, quite the opposite.
Those who knew her well say that she was very white-skinned, had a fine nose and blonde hair, and that she was beautiful since she was little. She was extremely intelligent for the time, she had an aptitude for music and learned Latin, because at that time she was nothing more than a crazy young woman, but she had become a valuable ornament for any castle court in rich Europe.
At only 16 years old she was already engaged to a man she did not know, because the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, her parents, wanted it that way. She could not sustain that farce that would turn her life into forever. The monarchs also did not conceive that their daughter liked to bathe, which she discovered with one of the Arab maids who served her. They never had healthy ideas about her, because ahead of the women around her, she had moments of rage or indignation, such as when she attacked one of the ladies of the court, because she distrusted her and her husband. For these reasons, she was constantly suspected of being insane.
She was widowed at a very young age. It is said that her husband, Philip the Fair, drank ice water, but she understood that it was poison. So, dressed in black and not saddened by this news, she flatly refused to accept any of the legal activities concerning the kingdom.
Ferdinand, her father, declared her insane and locked her up in a castle, because she had lost the desire to live and refused to do anything, even to look at life. There, for a long time, she was exposed to a hunger strike and for this reason she was beaten and forced to eat, something she did not want because she only wanted to die. In this brutal way, at the age of 66 she died, after being judged insane and locked up for almost half a century. It is said that this queen never reigned; she never wanted to marry this king, she forgot to stop and live and only pretended to stare into space. Some thought that Joan was simply suffering from an insanity, others that she was possessed.
She was not pretending; she had been abandoned by her family; she had fought all her life to be a good daughter, wife and mother, but her father and son had incapacitated her and locked her up for life, perhaps betrayed, because women in that period were not really suitable to represent the nobility, nor anything in life.
Thank you for reading me and for coming closer to Juana's story!
I would like to hear your comments.
Photos taken from Wikipedia and with my Xiaomi Redmi 9a.
Translator used: Deepl translator
