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Cesare Borgia ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃeːzare ˈbɔrdʒa, ˈtʃɛː-]; Valencian: Cèsar Borja [ˈsɛzaɾ ˈbɔɾdʒa]; Spanish: César Borja [ˈθesaɾ ˈβoɾxa]; 13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader), an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish- Aragonese House of Borgia.
5 days ago · Cesare Borgia, natural son of Pope Alexander VI. He was a Renaissance captain who, as holder of the offices of duke of the Romagna and captain general of the armies of the church, enhanced the political power of his father’s papacy and tried to establish his own principality in central Italy.
Oct 5, 2023 · The son of Pope Alexander VI, Italian cardinal and military leader Cesare Borgia ruthlessly sought power in Renaissance Europe until his death in 1507.
Jun 11, 2018 · Borgia, Cesare (1475–1507) Italian general and political figure, brother of Lucrezia Borgia. He was made a cardinal (1493) by his father, Pope Alexander VI, but forsook the Church to embark on a military campaign (1498–1503) to establish his dominion in central Italy.
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).
Mar 12, 2012 · Alleged portrait of Cesare Borgia by Altobello Melone. Bergamo, Accademia Carrara. 1500-1524. The Borgias came from Spain originally and the most famous of them died there, killed at the age of 31 in a minor skirmish by attackers who did not even know who he was.
Cesare Borgia (September 13, 1475 – March 11, 1507) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal who resigned his church office to became a military commander, powerful lord, and a leading figure in the politics of his era.
Borgia, Cesare, duke of Valentinois and Romagna (1476-1507) was the son of Pope Alexander VI. by Vanozza dei Cattanei. He was born at Rome while his father was cardinal, and on the latter’s elevation to the papacy (1492) he was created archbishop of Valencia, and a year later cardinal.
Cesare Borgia (b. 1475–d. 1507) came to prominence when his father, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, was elected Pope Alexander VI in 1492. A year later Alexander raised the teenage Cesare to the cardinalate, only for the young man to renounce his clerical career in 1498 and devote himself to the military unification of the Papal States.
Jun 9, 2023 · A series of betrayals, imprisonment, outmaneuverings and defeats soon befell Cesare, who in 1507 finally made the fatal mistake of pursuing, alone, a small group of retreating soldiers who’d been besieging his castle.
