<Table> <Tr> <Th colspan="2"> Treaty of Tordesillas </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="2"> Front page of the Portuguese - owned treaty </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Created </Th> <Td> 7 June 1494 in Tordesillas , Spain </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ratified </Th> <Td> 2 July 1494 in Spain 5 September 1494 in Portugal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Archivo General de Indias ( Spain ) Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo ( Portugal ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Author ( s ) </Th> <Td> Pope Alexander VI ( later confirmed and ratified by Pope Julius II in 1506 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signatories </Th> <Td> Ferdinand II of Aragon Isabella I of Castile John , Prince of Asturias John II of Portugal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Purpose </Th> <Td> To divide trading and colonising rights for all newly discovered lands of the world located between Portugal and Castile ( later applied between the Spanish Crown and Portugal ) to the exclusion of other European nations . </Td> </Tr> </Table>
who claimed land in south america for portugal
John II of Portugal