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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Pope Callixtus III, Nicholas of Cusa, Pope Pius II, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Paul II, Pope Innocent VIII, Pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Pope Julius III
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Christian world
- Pope Martin V· 1369 CE–1431 CE
- Thomas à Kempis· 1380 CE–1471 CE
- Pope Eugene IV· 1383 CE–1447 CE
- Pope Nicholas V· 1397 CE–1455 CE
- Pope Pius III· 1439 CE–1503 CE
- Girolamo Savonarola· 1452 CE–1498 CE
- Pope Adrian VI· 1459 CE–1523 CE
- Desiderius Erasmus· 1466 CE–1536 CE
- Pope Paul III· 1468 CE–1549 CE
- Pope Paul IV· 1476 CE–1559 CE
- Pope Clement VII· 1478 CE–1534 CE
- Martin Luther· 1483 CE–1546 CE
- Huldrych Zwingli· 1484 CE–1531 CE
- Bartolomé de las Casas· 1484 CE–1566 CE
- Thomas Müntzer· 1489 CE–1525 CE
- Thomas Cranmer· 1489 CE–1556 CE
- Martin Bucer· 1491 CE–1551 CE
- Ignatius of Loyola· 1491 CE–1556 CE
- William Tyndale· 1494 CE–1536 CE
- Menno Simons· 1496 CE–1561 CE
- Philip Melanchthon· 1497 CE–1560 CE
- Conrad Grebel· 1498 CE–1526 CE
- Pope Pius IV· 1499 CE–1565 CE
- Pope Marcellus II· 1501 CE–1555 CE
Islamic world
Jewish world
Luminaries & Explorers world
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Hindu world
Rulers world
- Ahuitzotl· –1502 CE
- Axayacatl· 1449 CE–1481 CE
- Lê Thánh Tông· 1442 CE–1497 CE
- Nzinga a Nkuwu (João I)· –1506 CE
- Ivan III the Great· 1440 CE–1505 CE
- Túpac Inca Yupanqui· –1493 CE
- Sunni Ali· –1492 CE
- Mehmed II the Conqueror· 1432 CE–1481 CE
- Isabella I of Castile· 1451 CE–1504 CE
- Qaitbay· 1416 CE–1496 CE
- Qansuh al-Ghuri· 1441 CE–1516 CE
- Bayezid II· 1447 CE–1512 CE
- Bahlul Lodi· –1489 CE
- Tizoc· –1486 CE
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