Joseph I of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1750 to 1777 (lived 1714-1777) · Portugal · Died at 62
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Something wrong?A king who ruled from tents. Joseph I inherited Portugal's throne in 1750, watched Lisbon collapse in the 1755 earthquake, then refused to sleep inside walls again. His actual power belonged to the Marquis of Pombal, who used the rubble to remake the country.
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Joseph became heir as an infant in 1714 when his older brother died, married a Spanish infanta in 1729, and took the crown in 1750 with outdated tools of governance and an empty treasury from his father's excesses. He handed control to Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo - the Marquis of Pombal - who used the king's name to force through laws and economic reforms while Joseph hunted and attended opera. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake killed thousands and shattered the capital, but it also let Pombal tighten his grip; the trauma left Joseph claustrophobic, and he moved his court into tents, never sleeping in a enclosed building again. A new palace was started but never finished. He survived a Spanish-French invasion in 1762, fathered four daughters, and died in 1777, leaving the throne to the eldest.
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