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Joanna of Naples had a hell of a life.\\xa0 There were unhappy marriages, there were murders, there were invasions, there was the Black Death, there was the Papal Schism, and there was a tangled ball of plots and tussles over the inheritance of the Neapolitan throne.\\xa0 At the end of it all, she was murdered and thrown into a well.\\xa0 And then she enjoyed hundreds of years of a Very Bad Reputation.\\xa0 But recently, scholarship has turned the tide! She was an excellent leader, who was beleaguered by a whole lot of men across Europe, though mostly in her bedchamber, who thought that really, women shouldn't be rulers!\\xa0 Michelle gets quite passionate about this.\\xa0 And manages to convince Anne as well, though for Anne the jury is still out on whether or not she was in on the plot to throw her first husband through a window.