Juana Manuel

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Queen of Castile and León from 1369 to 1379

title: "Juana Manuel" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1339-births", "1381-deaths", "queens-consort-of-castile", "queens-consort-of-leon", "galician-queens-consort", "castilian-house-of-burgundy", "house-of-trastámara", "14th-century-castilians", "castilian-infantas", "14th-century-spanish-women", "castilian-queen-mothers", "leonese-queen-mothers"] description: "Queen of Castile and León from 1369 to 1379" topic_path: "people/1330s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_Manuel" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Queen of Castile and León from 1369 to 1379 ::

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Field	Value
consort	yes
succession	Queen consort of Castile and León
image	La reina Juana Manuel y una de sus hijas (Detalle del cuadro de la Virgen de Tobed).png
caption	Juana and one of her daughters, painted by Jaume Serra in the mid-fourteenth century
reign	1369–1379
spouse	Henry II of Castile
issue	John I of Castile
Eleanor, Queen of Navarre
Infanta Joanna
house	Castilian House of Ivrea
father	Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
mother	Blanca Núñez de Lara
birth_date	1339
death_date	27 March
death_place	Salamanca
burial_place	Cathedral of Toledo
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| consort = yes | succession = Queen consort of Castile and León | image = La reina Juana Manuel y una de sus hijas (Detalle del cuadro de la Virgen de Tobed).png | caption = Juana and one of her daughters, painted by Jaume Serra in the mid-fourteenth century | reign = 1369–1379 | coronation = | spouse = Henry II of Castile | issue = John I of Castile Eleanor, Queen of Navarre Infanta Joanna | house = Castilian House of Ivrea | father = Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena | mother = Blanca Núñez de Lara | birth_date = 1339 | birth_place = | death_date = 27 March | death_place = Salamanca | burial_date = | burial_place= Cathedral of Toledo |}} Juana Manuel (1339 – 27 March 1381) was Queen of Castile from 1369 until 1379 by marriage to king Henry II of Castile. She was also the heiress of Escalona, Villena, Peñafiel and Lara, as well as Lady of Biscay.

Family

Juana was the daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1282–1348) and his third wife Blanca Núñez de Lara de La Cerda. Her mother Blanca (d. 1347) was a descendant of the lords of Biscay and of Lara and of Alfonso X's eldest son, Fernando de la Cerda. She was the last undisputably legitimate member of the House of Ivrea.

Marriage

Juana's father had been an enemy of King Alfonso XI of Castile, while the king tried to neutralize the Peñafiel family. On 27 July 1350 Juana's brother and guardian, Fernando Manuel of Peñafiel, married her to Henry, an illegitimate son of Alfonso XI.

Inheritance and queenship

In 1361, on the death of her niece Blanca, daughter of her brother Fernando Manuel who himself had died in c. 1350 without other children, she inherited the Duchy of Villena, Escalona and Peñafiel.

Because Juana was a maternal granddaughter of La Palomilla (Juana Núñez de Lara), she also inherited Lara and Biscay.

In 1369, her husband became King Henry II of Castile, after he deposed and murdered his half-brother to take the throne, and she became queen of Castile and León.

When in 1381 she died and left her inheritance to her son, it was finally united with Castile, and ultimately Spain.

Issue

Juana and Henry had:

King John I of Castile (1358–1390)
Eleanor (died 1416)
Joanna

Family tree

References

Sources

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