Editing Joanna of Castile (section)

====Philip's death====
By virtue of the agreement of Villafáfila, the [[Procurador en Cortes (Spain)|procurators of the ''Cortes'']] met in [[Valladolid]], Castile on 9 July 1506. On 12 July,<ref name="Colmeiro"/>{{rp|69–91}} they swore allegiance to Philip I and Joanna together as King and Queen of Castile and León and to their son Charles as their heir-apparent.<ref name="moneda Carlos"/>{{rp|135}} This arrangement only lasted for a few months.

On 25 September 1506, Philip died after a five-day illness in the city of [[Burgos]] in Castile. The probable cause of death was [[typhoid fever]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Philip I, the Handsome |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance |year=2003 |last=Campbell |first=Gordon |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860175-3 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780198601753.001.0001/acref-9780198601753-e-2810 }}</ref> but there were rumors that his father-in-law, Ferdinand II, had poisoned him.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Liss |first=Peggy K. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25048514 |title=Isabel the Queen: Life and Times |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-507356-8 |location=New York |page=354|oclc=25048514 }}</ref> Joanna was pregnant with their sixth child, a daughter named [[Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal|Catherine]] (1507–1578), who later became Queen of Portugal.  As Joanna had no midwife at the time, she was assisted during childbirth by her lady-in-waiting, [[María de Ulloa]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fernández Guisasola |first=Luis Fernando |year=2024 |title=Doña María de Ulloa, camarera mayor de la reina doña Juana I de Castilla. Familia y contexto político |journal=Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos |volume=71 |issue=137 |pages=e05 |doi=10.3989/ceg.2024.137.05 |url=https://doi.org/10.3989/ceg.2024.137.05|doi-access=free }}</ref> 

By 20 December 1506, Joanna was in the village of Torquemada in Castile, attempting to exercise her rights to rule alone in her own name as Queen of Castile. The country fell into disorder. Her son and heir-apparent Charles, later Charles I, was a six-year-old child being raised in his aunt's care in northern European [[Flanders]]; her father, Ferdinand II, remained in Aragon, allowing the crisis to grow.

A regency council under [[Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros|Archbishop Cisneros]] was set up, against the queen's orders, but it was unable to manage the growing public disorder; plague and famine devastated the kingdom with supposedly half the population perishing of one or the other. The queen was unable to secure the funds required to assist her to protect her power. In the face of this, Ferdinand II returned to Castile in July 1507. His arrival coincided with a remission of the plague and famine, a development which quieted the instability and left an impression that his return had restored the health of the kingdom.<ref name="Elliott"/>{{rp|139}}<ref name="Aram"/>