Portuguese Restoration War

The Portuguese Restoration War (

Portuguese Restoration War
The Acclamation of the King John IV, Veloso Salgado
Date 1 December 1640 – 13 February 1668 Location Portugal and Spain Result Portuguese victory Treaty of Lisbon End of the Iberian Union Territorial changes Portugal cedes Ceuta, Salvaterra de Miño and Hermisende to Spain
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of France (1641–1659) Kingdom of England (1662–1668)	Kingdom of Spain
Commanders and leaders
John IV Luisa de Guzmán Afonso VI Duke Pedro of Beja Marquis of Marialva Count of Vila Flor Count of Alegrete Duke of Schomberg	Philip IV Marquis of Carpio John of Austria Duke of Osuna Marquis of Caracena

Portuguese Restoration War Media

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  Philip II & III of Portugal and Spain.

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  John II, Duke of Braganza, waged the Restoration War and was acclaimed King John IV.

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  Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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  António Luís de Meneses, Marquis of Marialva, led victories at the Lines of Elvas.

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  Luisa de Guzmán, Queen Consort of Portugal, previously Duchess of Braganza.

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  John of Austria was instrumental in leading the Habsburg forces.

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  Frederico, Count of Mértola, who was in command of the English contingent brigade in Portugal

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  Margaret of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal, Duchess of Mantua.

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  Afonso VI of Portugal's reign was managed by the Count of Castelo Melhor.

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  Philip III & IV of Portugal and Spain

Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração) was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union. The period from 1640 to 1668 was marked by periodic skirmishes between Portugal and Spain, as well as short episodes of more serious warfare, much of it occasioned by Spanish and Portuguese entanglements with non-Iberian powers. Spain was involved in the Thirty Years' War until 1648 and the Franco-Spanish War until 1659, while Portugal was involved in the Dutch–Portuguese War until 1663.

In the seventeenth century and afterwards, this period of sporadic conflict was simply known, in Portugal and elsewhere, as the Acclamation War. The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal's new ruling dynasty, replacing the House of Habsburg who had been united with the Portuguese crown since the 1581 succession crisis.