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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.
The castle was held by Louis de Beaumont at the time it was besieged by Cesare Borgia and King John's army of 10,000 men in 1507. In order to attempt to breach the extremely strong, natural fortification of the castle, Cesare counted on a desperate surprise attack. He was killed during the battle, in which his army failed to take the castle.
Cesare Borgia [b] (13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was a Roman Catholic deacon ... he resigned his diaconal profession after the death of his brother in 1498.
Gioffre Borgia (1481– January 1517), also known as Goffredo , or Jofré Borja , was the youngest illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei, and a member of the House of Borgia.
Mary Frances Creighton (July 29, 1899 – July 16, 1936) was an American woman convicted and executed for murder by poisoning. [1] Creighton was nicknamed "The Long Island Borgia" and the "Black-Eyed Borgia [2] by the press, because of her use of arsenic poisoning. She was sentenced to death by electric chair. She passed out before the ...
Arms of the Dukes of Gandía from the House of Borgia. Pier Luigi de Borgia, 1st Duke of Gandía (Spanish: Pedro Luis de Borja, Catalan: Pere Lluís de Borja, Latin: Petrus Ludovicus de Boria; c. 1468 – 3 September 1488) [1] was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI) and a member of the House of Borgia.
Giovanni Borgia (March 1498 – 1548), known as the Infans Romanus ("the Roman child"), was born into the House of Borgia in secret and is of unclear parentage. Speculations of the child's parentage involve either Lucrezia Borgia with her alleged lover, Perotto Calderon or Cesare Borgia, or Pope Alexander VI as his father. [1]
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.