Johanna VII Josepha, Sunrosian monarch
| Johanna VII Josepha | |||||
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 Portrait by Martinus de Greunbos, 1723 | |||||
| Grand Duchess of Sunrosia | |||||
| Reign | 30 June 1719 – 8 May 1761 | ||||
| Coronation | 9 April 1721 | ||||
| Predecessor | George IV Augustus | ||||
| Successor | George V Louis | ||||
| Queen of Selosia | |||||
| Reign | 30 June 1719 – 8 May 1761 | ||||
| Coronation | 1 May 1721 | ||||
| Predecessor | George IV Augustus | ||||
| Successor | George V Louis | ||||
| Princess of Trevelia | |||||
| Reign | 30 June 1719 – 8 May 1761 | ||||
| Coronation | 16 May 1721 | ||||
| Predecessor | George IV Augustus | ||||
| Successor | George V Louis | ||||
| Archduchess of Ruttland | |||||
| Reign | 30 May 1721 – 8 May 1761 | ||||
| Coronation | 30 May 1721 | ||||
| Successor | George V Louis | ||||
| Born | 19 April 1685 Coerz, Grand Duchy of Sunrosia | ||||
| Died | 8 May 1761 (aged 76) Georgehaven, Kingdom of Selosia | ||||
| Burial | 17 June 1761 | ||||
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| House | Windeneim | ||||
| Father | George III Frederick | ||||
| Mother | Catherine of Schwarzberg | ||||
| Religion | Solarian Catholicism | ||||
Johanna VII Josepha (30 June 1719 – 8 May 1761), known as Johanna the Illustrious (Johanna die Erlauchte), was the first female ruler of the Sunrosian Monarchy and the last from the House of Windeneim. The eldest child of George III Frederick and Catherine of Schwarzberg, she succeeded her younger brother George IV Augustus after his death in the Battle of Gwithian on 30 June 1719, during the Ten Years' War. Taking the regnal name of Johanna and ordinals in continuation of previous male monarchs, she was officially coronated as Grand Duke of Sunrosia (Joanna Magni dux Sunrosiæ).
Johanna asserted her claim to the throne through the idea of proximity of blood, rather than the traditional male-preference primogeniture. She was uncontestedly recognised as monarch by the constituent realms of the Sunrosian Monarchy only after the Joannine Expeditions of 1719–1720. Following victory in the Ten Years' War, she personally attended the Congress of Cislania, where she traded part of expected territorial gains in favour of war reparations and increasing autonomy from the Confederation, allowing her to consolidate the disparate constituents of the Monarchy. Along with its military prowesses during the war, this would cement Sunrosia's newfound position as a great power in the new Euclean order and mark the beginning of the Sunrosian Ascendency.
Herself a learned woman with an interest in both the arts and sciences and strongly influenced by the ideal of the Renaissance man, she corresponded with and attracted many scientists and artists to her court, further stregthening the international splendour of the Sunrosian Monarchy. Disastisfied with the crowded and ancient Coerz, she ordered the construction of the city of Georgehaven (today Ostapils-Baihaven) in 1727 to which she moved her court in 1735. By concentrating the realms' political, spiritual, cultural, and scientific élites in a single place, Johanna became one of the most powerful monarch in Euclea, and consolidated a system of absolute and enlightened monarchical rule that lasted until the February Revolution of 1855.
Johanna never married, despite the urging of her councillors and of the estates, and historians often note her close relationships with other women, notably the Countess of Dolebor. Her preference for masculine attire, adoption of typically masculine mannerisms, along with some of her physical traits have led to her being called an hermaphrodite by her contemporaries. Johanna's gender, sexual orientation, and disregard for most social norms all play a central role in biographies and works about her. Template:Region icon Kylaris