But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.

Isabella died in 1455 and Afonso married again ( although not recognized by the Papacy ) in 1475, this time to Joanna of Castile ( known as " La Beltraneja "), daughter of Henry IV of Castile and Joan of Portugal.

* 1452 – Joan, Princess of Portugal, Portuguese princess and saint ( d. 1490 )

* 1535 – Joan of Austria, Princess of Portugal ( d. 1573 )

** Blessed Joan of Portugal

* June 13 – Joan of Portugal, Queen of Castile ( b. 1439 )

From 1539, the heir to the throne was John, Prince of Portugal, who married Joan of Spain, daughter of Charles V. The sole son of John III to survive childhood, Prince John was sickly and died young ( of juvenile diabetes ), eighteen days before his wife gave birth to Prince Sebastian on 20 January 1554.

He fought against Joan of Castile, who was supported by the Portuguese army of King Afonso V of Portugal, who was her husband and her uncle.

* Saint Joan of Portugal ( 1452 – 1490 )

Her mother was Joan of Portugal, the spouse of Henry IV of Castile.

Because of this and the fact that Joan of Portugal was allegedly having a relationship with Beltrán de La Cueva, a Castilian noble, she was considered illegitimate.

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The earliest sources indicate that Princess Joan of Portugal started to use verdugadas with hoops in Spain.

In this hostile climate against the crown, in 1475 Plasencia played host to the wedding of 13-year-old Princess Joan La Betraneja, pretender to the throne of Castile and her ambitious uncle King Afonso V of Portugal.

He achieved this by marrying a second time, to Joan of Portugal in 1455, and by meeting Afonso V of Portugal in Elvas in 1456.

In 1455, Henry married Joan of Portugal, sister of Afonso V of Portugal.

She interceded favourably with the king of France, for the marriage of her nephew Infante Ferdinand of Portugal with her grand-niece Joan, Countess of Flanders.

Blessed Joan of Portugal ( 6 February 1452 – 12 May 1490 ;, ), was a Portuguese saint, Regent and princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Afonso V of Portugal and his first wife Isabella of Coimbra.

Infanta Joan of Portugal was the second child of Afonso, but after the early death of her older brother John she was declared heiress to the throne in spite of being female.

Even though she lost it after the birth of her younger brother, the future John II of Portugal, among the people she continued to be known as Princess Joan.

Nosaltres, els valencians (; " We, the Valencians "), is a historical and political essay by the Valencian ( Spain ) author Joan Fuster, first published in 1962.

Joan Gamper (; 22 November 1877 – 30 July 1930 ) previously known as Hans Kamper was a Swiss football pioneer, player and club president.

Mrs. Joan Lichtenstein, for publicity ; ;

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

When Sforza also abandoned Louis, Alfonso seemed to have all his problems solved ; however, his relationship with Joan suddenly worsened, and in May 1423 he had her lover, and a powerful figure in the Neapolitan court, Gianni Caracciolo, arrested.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

* Former Victorian State Premier Joan Kirner ;

Joni Mitchell, CC ( born Roberta Joan Anderson ; November 7, 1943 ) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter.

The preliminaries were not yet finished when a noisy mob gathered with the purpose of saving him ; the king's mother, Joan of Kent, also took up his cause.

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Their daughter Helen Julia Hay, a writer and poet, married Payne Whitney of the influential Whitney family ; their children were U. S. ambassador John Hay Whitney and Joan Whitney Payson.

His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-director for Educational Pictures ; he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar.

Relationships with the royal family remained cold under Joan II ; However, when Raimondello's son Giannantonio ( 1386 – 1453 ) sent his troops to help her against the usurpation attempt of James of Bourbon, he received in exchange the Principality of Taranto.

The 16th-century Italian historian Onofrio Panvinio, commenting on one of Bartolomeo Platina's works that refer to Pope Joan, theorized that the story of Pope Joan may have originated from tales of Pope John XII ; John reportedly had many mistresses, including one called Joan, who was very influential in Rome during his pontificate.

Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, namely a papal fief ; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joan I of Naples, accused to have ordered the assassination of the former's brother, was ended in 1352 by a trial held in Avignon, by which she was acquitted from any charge.

* 2-Richard Cusack, 77, advertising executive turned actor & screenwriter ; father of actors John Cusack and Joan Cusack.

He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.

Méliès began hand-tinting his work as early as 1897 and the 1899 Cendrillion ( Cinderella ) and 1900 Jeanne d ' Arc ( Joan of Arc ) provide early examples of hand-tinted films in which the color was a critical part of the scenography or mise an scene ; such precise tinting used the workshop of Elisabeth Thuillier in Paris, with teams of female artists adding layers of color to each frame by hand rather than using a more common ( and less expensive ) process of stenciling.