Alphonso VI becomes King of Portugal

Historical Context Note

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On the death of John IV, his thirteen-year-old son Alfonso VI, who had been left half-paralysed by childhood illness, succeeds him as King of Portugal. He is deposed by his brother Pedro II in 1668, while Alfonso is declared insane. 

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