They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...

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Born in Xàtiva, near Valencia, Rodrigo Borgia was a career churchman and power player. He was made a cardinal in 1456 and became Pope Alexander VI in 1492. But in June 1460, he found himself on the ...

Spanish Religious Leader Pope Alexander VI was born Roderic Llançol i de Borja on 1st January, 1431 in Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, Crown of Aragon and passed away on 18th Aug 1503 Rome, Papal States ...

Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492–1503) created 43 new cardinals in 9 consistories: Juan de Borja Lanzol (Llançol) de Romaní, el mayor Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503). Juan de Borja-Llanzol (Llançol) de Romani ...

Alexander VI bought his way into the papacy and had a rollicking sex life. Alexander VI became pope in 1492 — but before then he was just Rodrigo Borgia, a member of the notorious Italian crime ...

His nephew, Rodrigo (1431-1503) – who he himself elevated to the cardinalate, and who would be elected Pope Alexander VI in 1492 – was reputed to be even worse. Accused of buying the papacy, he would ...

The painting was allegedly inspired by the Banquet of Chestnuts, a banquet supposedly held by Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. During this banquet, it is said that Borgia had ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. On a spring day in 1480, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia ordered various astrologers to his home in Rome to ...

They were not friends of the Medici. Rodrigo Borgia, the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, had at least two illegitimate children. His sociopath son, Cesare, was born just a year after Giovanni de'Medici ...