Talk:Joanna La Beltraneja

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A wildly biased article. If "no one took seriously" Joanna's claim to the throne there would not have been a civil war that lasted for years.

The article is an example of "victors history" with the account of events given by the supporters of the victors being treated as pure truth.

I will give one incident to show the moral character of those victors:

At the start of the civil war Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella (the neice of Henry IV of Castile) arrived at a castle. The castle was held by a governor who was not prepared to accept Isabella's claim to the throne of Castille.

Ferdinand and Isabella invited the governor to a meeting, swearing an oath of safe conduct. When the governor arrived Ferdinand and Isabella got a priest to annul their oath - they then had the governor tortured to death.

Study of rule of Ferdinand and Isabella shows that such an incident was quite typical of the standard of their (especially Ferdinand's) dishonesty and cruelty.

Any evidence from writers (including, indeed especially, clerical writers) supported by the government of Ferdinand and Isabella is suspect (to put it mildly).

Sure. Evidences, please? --213.37.71.217 (talk) 13:41, 25 April 2008 (UTC)