John II of Portugal consequently asked the Catholic Monarchs to directly negotiate the boundary of their Atlantic domains.
The discussions culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Tordesillas on June 7, The eastern part would be part of the Portuguese domain, and the western part that of the Spanish. The signatories also committed to not appeal to the pope's authority for support against the commitments of the treaty, but only to request its recognition, which was provided in It was really a matter of a diplomatic agreement about territorial division that indeed did not raise questions of evangelization.
The primary arrangement of the treaty was the establishing of the limit between the Spanish and Portuguese areas leagues further west of the one fixed by the Inter caetera bull of The western shift of the demarcation line enabled the Spanish to exert their domination over a larger part of what they thought to be Asia.
For the Portuguese, situating the line leagues to the west of the Cape Verde islands allowed them to control the route to India going around the Cape of Good Hope. Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service.
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Oxford Reference. The Castilians argued to use the Legua castellana or Castilian league, which was equivalent to 4. By extending the actual position of the Tordesillas line, Portugal won rights over the easternmost point of Brazil, which she eventually did occupy in through the expedition of Pedro Alvares Cabral. The Treaty of Tordesillas was in effect for almost years, with the exception of to when the crowns of Spain and Portugal were united.
It was superseded in the second half of the Eighteenth Century, by the Treaty of Madrid in and finally the Treaty of San Ildefonso in By Carlos Madrid.
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