Pope Alexander VI
1431 CE–1503 CE · Jativa (Xativa)
Born Rodrigo de Borja (Borgia) in Valencia, he was elevated by his uncle Calixtus III and served decades as a capable vice-chancellor before his contested, reputedly bribe-aided election. Alexander VI is among history's most controversial popes: an able administrator and patron who drew the 1493 line dividing New World claims between Spain and Portugal, yet notorious for flagrant nepotism and worldliness. He openly advanced his children—Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia among them—using the papacy to build Borgia power in Italy. Contemporary and later accounts, some hostile and embellished, made his name a byword for Renaissance corruption; modern scholars urge weighing propaganda against documented fact.
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Játiva (Xàtiva), a town in the Valencia region of eastern Spain. It was the birthplace of the Borgia popes Callixtus III and Alexander VI.
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