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The confinement of Queen Juana of Portugal

Alaejos, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid

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The confinement of Queen Juana of Portugal

Activity · Alaejos, Tierra de Medina, Valladolid

Image of Alaejos, not of the place itself.

The wife of Enrique IV was confined in the castle of the villa under the custody of Archbishop Alonso de Fonseca, in one of the most talked-about episodes of the Castilian court before the war of succession.

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Photo: Bernardo Baggio (CC BY 2.0)

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