Cardinals created by Alexander VI information

Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492–1503) created 43 new cardinals in 9 consistories: Juan de Borja-Llanzol (Llançol) de Romani, papal nephew, archbishop of Monreale –...

Cardinals more completely, Alexander, in a move that created much scandal, created 12 new cardinals. Among the new cardinals was his own son Cesare, then...

March 1507) was a Spanish-Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader), an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese...

Pope Callixtus III (r. 1455–1458) created nine cardinals in two consistories. All nominations were made in pectore and published on 17 September 1456;...

The College of Cardinals, more formally called the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. As of 19 April 2024...

23 cardinals participating in the conclave, fourteen had been elevated by Pope Sixtus IV. The cardinals of Sixtus IV, known as the "Sistine Cardinals" and...

(1441 – 4 November 1511) was a Spanish cardinal, and the seventh of ten cardinal-nephews created by Pope Alexander VI. Borja was born in 1441 in Xàtiva, Kingdom...

points in 1679. Alexander VII created 38 cardinals in six consistories which included Flavio Chigi, his nephew in the role of Cardinal-Nephew, while naming...

Augustinian convent in Valencia. Cardinals created by Alexander VI Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church Leopardi...

that saw her vindicated. He appointed two nephews as cardinals, one of whom became Pope Alexander VI. He is the last pope to date to take on the pontifical...

considered a very good choice by the cardinals since his state of health denoted a short papacy which would give those cardinals time to select a proper candidate...

Valencian cardinal, from the city of Valencia. He was tutor to the young Giovanni Borgia, and a close associate of his father Pope Alexander VI. He was...

Italian woman who was the chief mistress of Cardinal Rodrigo de Borgia, later to become Pope Alexander VI. Born in 1442, most likely in Mantua, Vannozza...

elected Pope Alexander VI. He belonged to the faction of the more senior cardinals who gathered around Cardinal Oliviero Carafa of Naples. Cardinal Francesco...

thirteen cardinals elected Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII on 20 September 1378. The cardinals argued that the election of Urban VI was invalid...

originally in the papal peerage. It was created in 1501 by the Apostolic authority of Pope Alexander VI and the cardinal council for Cesare Borgia, Duke of...

appointed as cardinal by his uncle, Alfons Borgia, Pope Callixtus III. He was elected Pope in 1492, taking the regnal name Alexander VI. While a cardinal, he maintained...

subscribed by twenty-one cardinals. Döllinger 1882, p. 417. Gregorovius 1900, VII.1, pp. 101–103. Pastor 1902, VI, pp. 364–365, 406–412. Pastor 1902, VI, pp...

1474 – 23 March 1524) was an Italian noblewoman, a mistress to Pope Alexander VI, and the sister of Pope Paul III. Known as Giulia la bella (Italian for...

(1402). He was created cardinal by Pope Innocent VII (1404–1406) in 1405. At the Council of Pisa (from 25 March 1409), the assembled cardinals elected Peter...

traveled to Rome, joining the household of Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja (who later became Pope Alexander VI) and becoming a protonotary apostolic....

feared that the cardinals would elect a French pope and return the papacy to Avignon. Consequently, they rioted and laid siege to the cardinals, insisting...

The incumbent Bishop is cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. Since 1150, its bishop has been the Dean of the College of Cardinals. Its Cathedral is Basilica...

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elected to the papacy as Clement VII (French: Clément VII) by the cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France...