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Giovanni Borgia was the pope's favourite son, and Alexander VI granted him important positions and honours. He was murdered in Rome on 14 June 1497. The case remained unsolved and is still considered one of the most notorious scandals of the Borgia era.
Painting by John Collier, "A glass of wine with Caesar Borgia", from left: Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia, Pope Alexander, and a young man holding an empty glass. The painting represents the popular view of the treacherous nature of the Borgias – the implication being that the young man cannot be sure that the wine is not poisoned.
Lucrezia Borgia (d. 1519), alleged by rivals of the Borgia family to be a poisoner, using a hollow ring to poison drinks with white arsenic; Edward Squire (d. 1598), English scrivener and sailor executed for conspiring to poison Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; George Chapman, hanged after murdering three common-law wives
Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples, and tradition has it that Lucrezia's brother, Cesare Borgia, may have had him murdered, after his political value waned. Notorious tales about her family cast Lucrezia as a femme fatale , a controversial role in which she has been latter portrayed in many artworks, novels, and films.
Gioffre Borgia (1481– January 1517), also known as Goffredo Borgia or Jofré Borja , was the youngest illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei, and a member of the House of Borgia.
Isabella was born on 5 January 1498 at Gandia, by Juan Borgia, II Duke of Gandia and illegitimate son on Pope Alexander VI, and Maria Enriquez de Luna, a Spanish noblewoman. She was the second child of the couple after her brother Juan Borgia Enriquez and a posthumous daughter: her father had died six months earlier, murdered by unknown assailants.
"The Confession" is the final episode of the second season of Showtime-Bravo! historical drama The Borgias. It was written by Guy Burt and directed by David Leland. It originally aired on June 17, 2012. The episode deals with the grief of the Pope for Juan, killed by Cesare for shaming the Borgia name.
Upon Borgia's return from a journey to Peru, Pope Julius III made known his intention to make him a cardinal. [4] To prevent this, Borgia decided, in agreement with Ignatius of Loyola, to leave the city secretly and go to the Basque Country. [7] In 1554, Borgia became the Jesuit commissary-general in Spain, [5] where he founded a dozen colleges ...