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Giovanna "Vannozza" dei Cattanei (13 July 1442 – 24 November 1518) [2] was an Italian woman who was the chief mistress of Cardinal Rodrigo de Borgia, later to become Pope Alexander VI. [ 3 ] Early life
An account of the banquet appears in the Liber Notarum of Johann Burchard, the Protonotary Apostolic and Master of Ceremonies. This diary, a primary source on the life of Alexander VI, was preserved in the Vatican Secret Archive; it became available to researchers in the mid-19th century when Pope Leo XIII opened the archive, although Leo expressed specific reluctance to allow general access ...
Pope Paul III Farnese had four illegitimate children and made his illegitimate son Pier Luigi Farnese the first duke of Parma. This is a list of sexually active popes, Catholic priests who were not celibate before they became pope, and those who were legally married before becoming pope. Some candidates were allegedly sexually active before their election as pope, and others were thought to ...
Born in Bassanello, the only son of Ludovico Orsini-Migliorati (1425-1489) and wife Adriana de Milà (b. 1434), Orsino was related to Alexander VI through his mother, who was the Pope's third cousin.
Borgia was elected on 11 August 1492 and assumed the name of Alexander VI (due to confusion about the status of Pope Alexander V, elected by the Council of Pisa). Many inhabitants of Rome were happy with their new pope because he was a generous and competent administrator who had served for decades as vice-chancellor.
Trogia Gazzella (also called Trusia or Turzia; 1460 - 1511) was an Italian noblewoman, mistress of King Alfonso II of Naples and mother of two of his illegitimate children, who both married one of illegitimate children of Pope Alexander VI Borgia by his mistress Vannozza Cattanei. Arms of family Gazzella of Gaeta
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Girolama Borgia was born in Rome in 1469 to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia and an unmarried woman whose identity is unknown, who was Borgia's lover before of his most famous mistress Vannozza Cattanei. She was the third child of Borgia, after her half-siblings Pedro Luis and Isabella.