Editing Joanna of Castile (section)

===Marriage===
[[File:Huwelijkscontract.Filips de Schone en Johanna van Castilië.JPG|thumb|left|The marriage contract of Joanna and Philip (1496).]]
In 1496, 16-year-old Joanna was betrothed to 18-year-old Philip of [[Habsburg monarchy|Austria]], in the [[Low Countries]]. Philip's parents were [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]], and his first wife, Duchess [[Mary of Burgundy]]. The marriage was one of a set of family alliances between the Habsburgs and the Trastámaras designed to strengthen both against growing French power.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pavić |first=Milorad |url=https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/prilog-knjiga/59702 |title=Marriage Politics of the European Royal Dinasties in the Early Modern Period |last2=Marin |first2=Ina |date=2017 |publisher=Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej |isbn=978-83-7784-990-3 |language=}}</ref>

Joanna entered a [[proxy marriage]] at the [[Royal Audiencia and Chancillería of Valladolid|Palacio de los Vivero]] in the city of [[Valladolid]], Castile, where her parents had secretly married in 1469. In August 1496 Joanna left from the port of [[Laredo, Cantabria|Laredo]] in northern Castile on the Atlantic's [[Bay of Biscay]]. Except for 1506, when she saw her younger sister Catherine, the then-Dowager Princess of Wales, she would never see her siblings again.

[[File:Philip the Fair and Joanna of Castile.jpg|thumb|left|300px| Joanna of Castile and Philip the Fair, stained glass, Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges.]]

Joanna began her journey to [[Habsburg Netherlands|Brabant]] in the Low Countries, which consisted of parts of the present day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany, on 22 August 1496. The formal marriage took place on 20 October 1496 in [[Lier, Belgium|Lier]],<ref name="Aram37"/> north of present-day Brussels. Between 1498 and 1507, she gave birth to six children, two boys and four girls, all of whom grew up to be either emperors or queens.<ref>[[Eleanor of Austria|Eleanor of Austria, Queen of France and Portugal]], [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Isabella of Austria|Isabella of Austria, Queen of Denmark]], 
[[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Mary, Queen of Hungary]], and [[Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal]].</ref>