Royal side, arch 9
Joanna of Castile and Philip the Handsome
PHILIPVS I ET JOANNA
- Sculptor
- Alejandro Carnicero
- Year
- not recorded
- Where it is
- Royal side, arch 9
Who they were
Joanna of Castile
1479–1555 Queen of Castile and Aragon
Joanna or Joan was Queen of Castile from 1504 and Queen of Aragon from 1516 to her death in 1555. She was the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Joanna was married by arrangement to the Austrian archduke Philip the Handsome on 20 October 1496.
Philip the Handsome
1478–1506 Habsburg ruler, King of Castile in 1506
Philip the Handsome, also called Philip the Fair, was ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, including the counties of Artois, Burgundy and Charolais from 1493, and the first king of Castile from the House of Habsburg in 1506. Philip was the son of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy.
Opening paragraphs from the Wikipedia articles on Joanna of Castile and Philip the Handsome, in the revision we consulted, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Birth and death dates come from Wikidata.
Photograph: Tamorlan · CC BY 3.0 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
