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Aug 10, 2020 · Alexander VI was originally known as Rodrigo de Borja y Doms (Italianized as Rodrigo Borgia). Son of Jofre Lançol and Isabella Borgia, he was born in 1431 in Xàtiva, a town in Valencia, which was then part of the Crown of Aragon, and today part of Spain. It was through his mother that the future pope was related to the House of Borgia.
Jun 20, 2020 · On October 30, 1501, Pope Alexander VI and his son, Cesare, held what’s become known as the Banquet of Chestnuts at the Apostolic Palace, the pope’s official residence. It was reportedly an all-night orgy that saw the pope, his son, and some of their inner circle enjoy the services of 50 prostitutes at once and make a competition out of it.
Jun 9, 2023 · Cesare was the bastard (perhaps in both senses of the word) son of Pope Alexander VI and his longterm mistress, Roman aristocrat Vanozza Dei Cattanei. Born into a wealthy, well-connected family in Valencia in 1431, the future pope rose rapidly through church ranks following his uncle’s elevation to the papacy in 1455, eventually taking the ...
Pope Alexander VI. Pope Alexander VI (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503), born Rodrigo Borja (Italian: Rodrigo Borgia ), Pope from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the Popes of the Renaissance, whose surname became a byword for low standards in the papacy of that era. More interested in wealth and power than in theology or ...
Quick Facts About Pope Alexander VI. He was born on January 1, 1431, in Xativa, which was in the Kingdom of Valencia and the Crown of Aragon. Given the name Roderic de Borja at birth, he also used the name, Rodrigo Borja. He died at the age of 72 on August 18, 1503, in Rome. Alexander VI died of an illness that caused him to take to bed on ...
Cesare Borgia, later duc de Valentinois, (born c. 1475/76, probably Rome—died 1507, near Viana, Spain), Italian military leader, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, and brother of Lucrezia Borgia. He was made archbishop of Valencia (1492) and cardinal (1493). After his brother’s murder (1497), he took command of the papal armies.
Borgia, by a bare two-thirds majority secured by his own vote, was proclaimed Pope on the morning of 11 Aug., 1492, and took the name of Alexander VI. [For details of the conclave see Pastor, "Hist. of the Popes", (German ed., Freiburg, 1895), III, 275-278; also Am. Cath. Quart. Review, April, 1900.]
