BORGIA
The part of the family of which my materials treat
begins with one Domingo de Borja, a nobleman in Játiva, who, by his wife,
Francisca Martí, had issue:
1a) Alonso, Bp of
2a) Juana; m.Mateo Martí (d.1462/4)
3a) Catalina; m.Juan de Milá, Baron de Masavalés
1b) Luis Juan de Mila, Bp of Segorbe, Governor of Bologna, Cardinal
1456 (d.Bélgida 1510)
2b) Adriana de Mila; m.Ludovico Orsini
4a) Isabel (d.19 Oct 1468); m.a distant cousin,
Jofre de Borja y Doms (d.ca 1437)
1b) Pedro Luis de
Borja, Duca di Spoleto, di Benevento e di Terracina, Gov of St.Peters, Prefect
of Rome, d.Civitavecchia 1458
2b) Rodrigo de Borja, reigned
as Pope Alexander VI 1492-1503, during which time he set up many of his
relatives in powerful appanages and marriages, b.1431, d.of poisoning 1503; he
had many illegitimate children:
1c) Pedro Luis, Duque
de Gandia, b.ca 1467, d.1488; m. Maria Enriquez de Luna (of a bastard branch of
the Castilian royal family) (ca 1474-1539)
2c) Jirolama, b.ca
1469, d.1483; m.ca 1482 Gianandrea Cesarini (d.1483)
3c) [by Vanozza
Cattaneis (d.Rome 1518)] Cesare Borgia, Archbishop of
1d) Luisa, Pss Borgia,
Dss de Valentinois, etc (1500-1553); m.1st 1517 Louis de La Trémoille, Vcte de
Thouars, Pr de Talmond, Cte de Guines, etc (k.a.Pavia 1525); m.2nd
1530 Philippe de Bourbon de Busset (k.a.St.Quentin 1557)
2d) [illegitimate]
Girolamo Borgia, lived inFerrara, b.ca 1501; m.1st Isabella
Pizzabernani; m.2nd Ctsa Isabella di Carpi
1e) Ippolita
2e) Lucrezia
3d) [illegitimate]
Lucrezia, Abbess of
4c) [by Vanozza
Cattaneis] Juan de Borja, Duque de Gandia, Duca di Sessa, Grand Constable of Naples,
papal Gonfalonier and General Captain, Gov of St.Peters, b.Rome 1474, murdered
there 1497; m.ca 1492 Maria Enriquez, widow of his oldest brother
1d) Juan de Borja,
Duque de Gandia, Duca di Sessa, Pr di Teabo e Tricario, Grand Constable of
Naples (1505-1543); m.1st Valladolid 1509 Juana (d.1521)
illegitimate dau.of Alfonso of Aragon, Archbishop of Saragossa; m.2nd
ca 1523 Francisca de Castro y de Pinos (d.1576)
1e) [St.] Francisco de
Borja, Duque de Gandia, Gov and Captain General of Catalonia; after the death
of his wife he became a Jesuit and rose to be General of the order; m.1510,
d.Rome 1572; m.1529 Leonor de Castro y de Melo
(1512-1546); for his descendants
see Part 2
2e) Alfonso, Abbot of
Santa Maria de Valldigna (1511-1531/8)
3e) Enrique, Bp of
Squillache, Cardinal-Deacon 1539 (Gandia
4e) Jeronimo, d.after
5e) Rodrigo Luis, Baron
de
6e) Pedro Luis
Galceran, Marques de Navarres, Viceroy of
1f) Juan, Marques de
2f) [illegitimate by
Mencia Jofre de Almunia] Pedro Luis de Borja (1588- ); m.Ana de Peralta y Jofre
1g) Pedro, d.after
7e) Diego, a priest,
b.1529, k.a.1554; he had illegitimate issue:
1f) Diego, Bp of Ales
2f) Juana, an Abbess in
3f) Francisca; m.1572
Pedro de Rojas y Ladron (d.1602)
8e) Tomas, Archbishop
of
9e) Felipe Manuel,
d.Messina 1587; he had an illegitimate son:
1f) Felipe; m.Jeronima
de Castellvi
10e) Maria, a nun at
Santa Clara, Gandia, b.1513
11e) Ana, a nun at
Santa Clara, Gandia, d.1568
12e) Isabel, a nun at
13e) Luisa (1520-1560);
m.1541 Martin de Aragon, Duque de
14e) Maria, a nun at
Santa Clara, Gandia, d.after Aug 1569
15e) Leonor (1534-ca
1596); m.ca 1558 Miguel de Gurrea y Moncada, sn de
Guerra
16e) Ana, a nun at Santa
Clara, Gandia (1535-1601)
17e) Magdalena Clara,
Marquesa de Navarres; m.Fernando de Proxita, Cde de Almenara
18e) Margarita
(1538-1573); m.1558 Fadrique de Noronha (d.1573)
19e) Juana, d.young
20e) [illegitimate by
Catalina Diaz y de Castellvi] Juan Cristobal de Borja, b.1516; m.1st
1545 Ana de Ribelles; m.2nd
1f) Pedro; m.Isabel de
Hijar y Borja
2d) Isabel, a nun at
5c) [by Vanozza
Cattaneis] Lucrezia Borgia, b.Rome 1480, d.Ferrara 1519; m.1st Vatican
1493 (div 1497) Giovanni Sforza d'Aragona, Cte di Cotognola, Pr di Pesaro; m.2nd
Vatican 1498 Alfonso de Aragon, Pr di Salerno, Duca di Biseglia (murdered in
the Vatican 1500); m.3rd 1502 Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara,
Modena and Reggio (d.1534)
1d) Giovanni Borgia,
Duca di Nepi e di Camerino (1498-Genoa 1547); he was probably the son of Lucrezia by Pedro Caldes (Perotto), her
chamberlain; nevertheless, successive papal bulls identified him as son of
Cesare Borgia by an unknown woman, and then as son of Pope Alexander by an
unknown woman; malicious scandalmongers speculated that he was son of Cesare or
the Pope by Lucrezia; the Pope wanted the child legitimated, but could not
announce the child as Lucrezia’s while trying to arrange Lucrezia’s
marriages
2d) [by her 2nd
m.she had a son who took the Borgia name]: Rodrigo d'Aragona de Borgia, Duca di
Biseglia e Sermonetta (b.Rome 1499, d.Bari 1512)
6c) Isabella
(1471-1547); m.1483 Pietro Giovanni Matuzzi
7c) [by Vanozza Cattaneis]
Jofre Borgia, Pr di Squillace, b.1481/2, d.Squillace 1517; m.1st
1d) Francesco, Pr di
Squillace, Cte di Olivito; m.1st Isabella Piccolomini; m.2nd
Isabella Milano d'Aragona
1e) Gianbattista, Pr di
Squillace; m.Leonora Marulli
1f) Pietro Borgia
d'Aragona, Pr di Squillace, d.ca 1624; m.1st Isabella Pignatelli;
m.2nd Leonora Carafa; m.3rd Lucrecia de Cardenas y Carafa
1g) Anna, Pcsa de
Squillace, d.1644; m.1602 Francisco de Borja, Cde de Mayalde (d.1658)
2g) Giovanna, d.ca
1612; m.Michele Antonio Orsini, Duca di Gravina
2e) Antonia; m.Antonio
Piccolomini
2d) Lucrezia, d.ca
1576; m.1525 Giovanni Carafa, Marchese di Castelvetere (d.1553)
3d)
8c) [by Giulia Farnese,
sister of Pope Paul III] Laura Orsini, b.1492; m.1508 Niccolo della Rovere, nephew of Pope Julius III
9c) Rodrigo Borgia,
Abbot of Cicciano di Nola (1503-1527)
3b) Juana; m.Pedro-Guillen
Lanzol de Romani, Baron de Villalonga; their children used the surname Borgia
1c) Jofre de Borja Lanzol de Romani; m.Juana de Moncada
1d) Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romani, Archbp of Valencie, Cardinal 1496
(1470-Fossombrone
2d) Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romani, Archbp of Valencia, Cardinal
1500 (
4b) Tecla, d.ca 1462;
m.Vidal de Vilanova
5b) Beatriz, Bss de
Castelnovo; m.Ximen Perez de Arenos
6b) Damiata
7b) [apparently
illegitimate] Francisco, Archbp of
5a) Francisca