# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ii-of-castile
# Generated: 2026-09-01T15:07:35.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ii-of-castile"
name: "John II of Castile"
slug: "john-ii-of-castile"
description: "A king who reigned for nearly half a century yet left the throne weaker than he found it — remembered less for what he did than for the power he let slip to those around him."
tagline: "King of Castille and Leon"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1405-03-06"
deathDate: "1454-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.49
  momentum:             0.4097342935187483
  historical:           22.236444
  currentAttention:     1.463336762566958
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Royalty"
    slug: "royalty"
  - name: "Politics"
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    title: "خوان التانى ملك كاستييا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Xuan II de Castiella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ایکینجی جان کاستیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "II Xuan (Kastiliya kralı)"
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    title: "Хуан II Кастилски"
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    title: "Ivan II, kralj Kastilje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan II de Castella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jan II. Kastilský"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johann II. (Kastilien)"
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    title: "Juan II de Castilla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Juan II (Kastiilia)"
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    title: "Joan II.a Gaztelakoa"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Juhana II (Kastilia)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_II_(roi_de_Castille)"
    title: "Jean II (roi de Castille)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuan_II_de_Castiella"
    title: "Chuan II de Castiella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "خوان الثاني ملك قشتالة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  John succeeded his older sister as Prince of Asturias in 1405, then inherited the Castilian throne a year later at barely a year old. The crown sat on his head from 1406 until his death in 1454, a reign stretching forty-eight years across the first half of the fifteenth century. What that long tenure actually built remains the harder question: he ruled through regencies, favorites, and noble factions, his reign a study in how duration and control are not the same thing. He died in July 1454, having outlasted most of his contemporaries but leaving Castile to sort out what his decades had meant.