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Adult life and career. In Madrid in the month of September 1529, he married a Portuguese noblewoman, Leonor de Castro Mello y Meneses. They had eight children: Carlos in 1530, Isabel in 1532, Juan in 1533, Álvaro circa 1535, Juana also circa 1535, Fernando in 1537, Dorotea in 1538, and Alfonso in 1539. [citation needed]
Apr 18, 2024 · Saint Francis Borgia ; canonized 1671; feast day October 10) was a Spanish nobleman who, as the third general of the Society of Jesus, was instrumental in spreading the Jesuits’ influence throughout Europe. Educated at Saragossa, Spain, he married Eleanor de Castro, a Portuguese noblewoman, in.
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He later married Maria de Mila y Aragón, with whom he had a son, Francesco Borgia. Angela Borgia or Angela de Borja (c. 1486 – c. 1520–1522), lady of Sassuolo. Enrique de Borja y Aragón (1518–1540) Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía (1510–1572), great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.
In 1529 he married Leonor de Castro of Portugal, Empress Isabella's first lady-in-waiting. The 20 year-old Borgia was honored by the Emperor who named him Marquis of Llombai and placed him in charge of the imperial household.
Quick Reference. (1510–72), Jesuit priest. The son of the duke of Gandia, the great-grandson of a pope (Alexander VI) and of a king (Ferdinand V of Aragon), Francis was educated privately and was received at the Emperor's court when eighteen years of age. The next year he married, and was made viceroy of Catalonia by Charles V.
Rodrigo Borgia, elected pope in 1402 under the name of Alexander VI, had eight children. The eldest, Pedro Luis, had acquired in 1485 the hereditary Duchy of Gandia in the Kingdom of Valencia, which, at his death, passed to his brother Juan, who had married Maria Enriquez de Luna.
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Borgia joined Spain’s imperial court at age 18, and the next year he married Eleanor de Castro. Together they had eight children. In 1539, after experiencing a religious conversion, he began to devote himself to prayer and penance.
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