(1604-03-18)18 March 1604 Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Vila Viçosa, Portugal
Died
6 November 1656(1656-11-06) (aged 52) Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal
Burial
Pantheon of the Braganzas
Spouse
Luisa de Guzmán (m. 1633)
Issue Detail
Teodósio, Prince of Brazil Joana, Princess of Beira Catherine, Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland Afonso VI, King of Portugal Peter II, King of Portugal
House
Braganza[1]
Father
Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza
Mother
Ana de Velasco y Girón
Religion
Roman Catholicism
Signature
John IV (Portuguese: João,[2]pronounced[ʒuˈɐ̃w]; 18 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), nicknamed John the Restorer (Portuguese: João, o Restaurador), was the King of Portugal whose reign, lasting from 1640 until his death, began the Portuguese restoration of independence from Habsburg Spanish rule.[1] His accession established the House of Braganza on the Portuguese throne, and marked the end of the 60-year-old Iberian Union by which Portugal and Spain shared the same monarch.
Before becoming king, he was John II, the 8th Duke of Braganza. He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza,[3] a claimant to the crown during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580. On the eve of his death in 1656, the Portuguese Empire was at its territorial zenith, spanning the globe.[4]
^ abTorgal, Luís Reis (1981). "A Restauração – Sua Dinâmica Sócio-política". Ideologia Política e Teoria do Estado na Restauração (in Portuguese). Vol. I. Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra. pp. 69–85. hdl:10316/665. ISBN 9789726160823.
^Also rendered as Joam in Archaic Portuguese
^Jayne, Kingsley Garland (1911). "Portugal § History" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 148.
^D.A. Brading (1993). The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots and the Liberal State 1492–1866. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-521-44796-6.
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