# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-vi-of-portugal
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:03:26.577Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-vi-of-portugal"
name: "John VI of Portugal"
slug: "john-vi-of-portugal"
description: "He fled an empire across an ocean to save it, then lost half of it to his own son. John VI held the Portuguese crown through Napoleonic invasion, Brazilian independence, and a poisoning that may have ended him — yet built the scaffolding of a new nation while his own crumbled."
tagline: "King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Retrato_D._Joao_(Henri-Fran%C3%A7ois_Riesener).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
birthDate: "1767-05-13"
deathDate: "1826-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.97708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  228
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q676301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
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    title: "جواو السادس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joan VI de Portugal"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_VI._(Portugal)"
    title: "Johann VI. (Portugal)"
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    title: "Ιωάννης ΣΤ΄ της Πορτογαλίας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Johano la 6-a (Portugalio)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Juan VI de Portugal"
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    title: "João VI"
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    title: "ژائو ششم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Juhana VI"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_VI_(roi_de_Portugal)"
    title: "Jean VI (roi de Portugal)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xo%C3%A1n_VI_de_Portugal"
    title: "Xoán VI de Portugal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Huã VI Poytuga pegua"
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    title: "ז'ואאו השישי, מלך פורטוגל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chuan VI de Portugal"
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    title: "جواو السادس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Lisbon in 1767, John became heir after his older brother died of smallpox in 1788. He married Carlota Joaquina of Spain, who would spend decades conspiring against him. By 1799 his mother's mental illness forced him into a regency he held for seventeen years before formally taking the throne in 1816. Napoleon's invasion in 1807 drove him across the Atlantic to Brazil, where he spent over a decade laying institutional groundwork that historians now credit as the foundation of the modern Brazilian state. Forced back to Europe by liberal revolts, he watched his son Pedro declare Brazilian independence in 1822 and his other son Miguel lead a rebellion against him. He died in 1826, possibly by arsenic poisoning, having ruled through unbroken crisis — yet recent scholarship has reclaimed him as a tactician who held impossible forces in balance longer than anyone expected.