John IV

John IV
died A.D. 642, pope 640-642.

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▪ king of Portugal
also called (1630–40) João, 8o Duque (8th duke) De Bragança (Bragança, House of), byname John The Fortunate, Portuguese João O Afortunado
born March 18/19, 1604, Vila Viçosa, Port.
died Nov. 6, 1656, Lisbon

      king of Portugal from 1640 as a result of the national revolution, or restoration, which ended 60 years of Spanish rule. He founded the dynasty of Bragança (Braganza), beat off Spanish attacks, and established a system of alliances.

      John, duke of Bragança, the wealthiest nobleman in Portugal, married Luisa de Guzmán, daughter of the Spanish duke of Medina Sidonia. The Bragança duchy, founded in 1461, was a collateral of the extinct royal House of Aviz; and, when the restorers of independence overthrew the Spanish governor on Dec. 1, 1640, they offered John the crown. On December 15 he was enthroned as John IV. Supported by the Cortes, the national assembly, he entrusted each province with its own defense and sent missions to seek recognition from France, England, and the Netherlands. His alliance with the English Stuarts (1642) was frustrated by the English Civil Wars, but in 1654 John made a new treaty with the English Commonwealth, which gained him military aid in return for trading privileges. The Dutch, already in possession of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, seized Angola but were expelled from both, while retaining their conquests in the East Indies. The Spanish were defeated at Montijo (May 26, 1644) and were blocked from further invasion.

      John IV and his Queen Leonor governed through a royal council and a committee of the Cortes, the Board of Three Estates, and instituted the Overseas Council. He survived attempts at assassination and Spanish attempts to influence the Vatican to isolate the Portuguese church. John was a notable composer.

      At John's death his wife became regent for their son Afonso VI (ruled 1656–83). His daughter Catherine of Braganza married Charles II of England in 1662.

pope
born , Dalmatia [now in Croatia]
died Oct. 12, 642, Rome

      pope from 640 to 642.

      A Roman archdeacon, John was elected (Dec. 24, 640) as successor to Pope Severinus. He perpetuated Severinus' condemnation of monothelitism, a 7th-century heresy concerning the will of Christ. He sent an emissary to redeem Balkan Christians captured during Slavic invasions. John was against the date for Easter favoured by Celts in Ireland, and he defended the highly controversial orthodoxy of Pope Honorius I, who had held that Christ's human and divine natures were indivisible and that the Son's will was not different from that of the Father. In 641, however, he convoked a synod which condemned monothelitism, the belief that Christ had only one will.

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