Joan of Portugal
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| Queen consort of Castile and León | |
| Tenure | 21 May 1455 – 11 December 1474 |
| Born | 20 March 1439 Mount Olivete Villa, Almada, Portugal |
| Died | 12 December 1475 (aged 36) Madrid, Castile |
| Burial | Basilica of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid |
| Spouse | Henry IV of Castile |
| Issue | Joanna la Beltraneja |
| House | Aviz |
| Father | Edward, King of Portugal |
| Mother | Eleanor of Aragon |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Joana of Portugal (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐnɐ]; English: Joan; 20 March 1439 – 12 December 1475) was Queen consort of Castile as the second wife of King Henry IV of Castile and a Portuguese infanta, the posthumous daughter of King Edward of Portugal and his wife Eleanor of Aragon. She was born in the Quinta do Monte Olivete, Almada six months after the death of her father.
On 21 May 1455 in Córdoba, Spain, she married as his second wife King Henry IV of Castile who had repudiated his first consort, Blanche II of Navarre, after thirteen years of marriage. It was rumoured that their marriage had never been consummated due to the king's impotence. Henry and Joan shared the same maternal grandparents; Ferdinand I of Aragon and Eleanor of Alburquerque (making them first cousins). They also shared the same paternal great-grandfather; John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (making them second cousins). In February 1462, six years after Joan's marriage to Henry, she gave birth to a daughter, also named Joan, called La Beltraneja because of rumours that she was in fact the daughter of Don Beltrán de la Cueva, 1st Duke of Alburquerque, who was suspected of being Joan's lover.
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