Women in 16th-century warfare

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: La Malinche, Grace O'Malley, Joanna of Castile, Inés de Suárez, Chand Bibi, Christina Gyllenstierna, Abbakka Rani, Ketevan of Mukhrani, Amina, Komatsuhime, Rani Durgavati, Iníon Dubh, Sri Suriyothai, India Catalina, Anna Leuhusen, Trijn van Leemput, Jane Neville, Countess of Westmorland, Gaitana, Maria Pita, Unniyarcha, Ebba Stenbock, Anna Eriksdotter, Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, Gertruid Bolwater, Maeda Matsu, María Pacheco, Brita Olofsdotter, Trijn Rembrands, Marguerite Delaye, Catharina Rose, Mary Ambree. Excerpt: Joanna or Joan (6 November 1479 - 12 April 1555), nicknamed Joanna the Mad (Spanish: ), was the first queen regnant to reign over both the Crown of Castile (1504-55) and the Crown of Aragon (1516-55), a union which evolved into modern Spain. Besides the kingdoms of Spain, she also ruled the kingdoms of Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples in Italy; a vast colonial empire in the Americas; and was Countess of Burgundy and the consort of the Burgundian Netherlands, thus initiating Spanish interests there. She was the last monarch of the House of Trastámara and her marriage to Philip the Handsome initiated the rule of the Habsburgs in Spain. Throughout most of her long reign she was under the regency of either her husband, father or son, and she was long confined to a nunnery under the pretense of mental illness. Juana around the time of her marriage, c. 1496. Juana was not just a great beauty in her youth, but one of the most educated women in Europe, fluent in several languages.Joanna was born in the ancient Visigothic city of Toledo, the capital of the Kingdom of Castile. She was the third child and second daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon of the royal House of Trastámara. Joanna was an intelligent child and student. In the Castilian court her main tutors were the Dominican priest Andrés de Miranda, the respected educator Beatriz Galindo who was a member of the queen's court, and her mother the queen. She was accomplished in religious studies, court etiquette, the arts of dance and music, and equestrian skills. Joanna mastered all of the Iberian Romance languages: Castilian, Leonese, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan. She also was fluent in French and Latin. She was trained and educated for a significant marriage that, as a royal family alliance, would extend the kingdoms' power and security as well as its influence and peaceful relations with other ruling powers. As an infanta she was not expected to be heiress to the throne of either Castile or Ara