John VI of Portugal
King of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves from 1816 to 1825
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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.
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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…
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