John III of Portugal (Tudor Line)

John III of Portugal was born on 7 June 1502 to king Manuel I of Portugal and Maria of Aragon as the Prince of Spain. In 1521 he began ruling his 36 year long reign, he soon asked Joanna I and Charles I for a political marriage, it ended in a his marriage to Catherine, Joanna's sister and his sister Isabella's marriage to Charles. He continued an absolutist ways of previous kings and in 1527 his only daughter Maria of Portugal was born. She was soon bethroved to Henry IX of England. During his reign he made his own empire right next to his brother-in-law's empire in South America. After some time his dream of a heir in a form of a little Prince John (1537), but soon he died of unexplained causes and to this day it is claimed that Henry IX killed him. During his reign some Lutherans made their way through Portugal, angry at this he soon asked the Pope Alexander VII to send an inquisition to get rid of them. In 1550 he went to Portugal to oversee his realm there, whoever there he got malaria. This eventually turned into a problem, Herny IX wanted his wife to inherite the throne, but John rather than giving to Maria, decided that his brother Louis would inherit them.