Giovanna of Naples
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Giovanna of Naples (1478 - 27 August 1518) was the Queen consort of Ferdinand II of Naples.
[edit] Family
She was a daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples and his second wife Joanna of Aragon. Her maternal grandparents were John II of Aragon and his second wife Juana Enríquez.
She was a paternal half-sister of (among others) Alfonso II of Naples and Frederick IV of Naples.
[edit] Marriage
In 1496, Giovanna married her nephew Ferdinand II of Naples. He was a son of her paternal half-brother Alfonso II of Naples. The aunt and bride was actually only eighteen years old while the nephew and groom was twenty-seven.
Ferdinand II died on 7 September of the same year. He was childless and was succeeded by his uncle and her half-brother Frederick IV of Naples. Giovanna survived him by twenty-two years but never remarried.
| Preceded by Joanna of Aragon |
Queen consort of Naples 1496 |
Succeeded by Isabella del Balzo |
