House
House of Borgia
Aragonese noble family during the Italian Renaissance
- Dated from 1455 CE
- Also called House of De Borja, House of Borja, Borgias
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 8
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
5 children in the house
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Pier Luigi de Borgia 1462 CE – 1488 CE -
Cesare Borgia 1475 CE – 1507 CE -
Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia 1476 CE – 1497 CE -
Lucrezia Borgia 1480 CE – 1519 CE -
Gioffre Borgia 1481 CE – 1516 CE
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Callixtus III8 January 1379 CE – 15 August 1458 CE · pope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family -
Alexander VIc. 1 January 1431 CE – 18 August 1503 CE · pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
Pier Luigi de Borgia1462 CE – 3 September 1488 CE · Child of Alexander VI -
Cesare Borgia13 September 1475 CE – 12 March 1507 CE · Child of Alexander VI -
Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia1476 CE – 14 June 1497 CE · Child of Alexander VI -
Lucrezia Borgia18 April 1480 CE – 24 June 1519 CE · Child of Alexander VI -
Gioffre Borgia1481 CE – December 1516 CE · Child of Alexander VI -
Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía28 October 1510 CE – 30 September 1572 CE · Grandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572)
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Duke of Gandía
- 3 holders
- 1 gap
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1488 CE – 1497 CE Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia son of Pope Alexander VI -
Gap about 46 years before the next in this house
4th from 1543 CE Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía Grandee of Spain and Jesuit priest (1510–1572)
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Pier Luigi de Borgia 1st duke of Gandía and son of Pope Alexander VI
Apostolic administrator
- 7 holders
- 4 overlapping pairs
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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1457 CE – 30 June 1458 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
8 July 1482 CE – 11 August 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
9 October 1489 CE – 11 August 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) Has references -
1491 CE – 11 August 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
4 November 1493 CE – 20 January 1495 CE Cesare Borgia Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal -
1495 CE – 6 September 1499 CE Cesare Borgia Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal -
20 January 1495 CE – 6 September 1499 CE Cesare Borgia Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal
Captain General of the Church
- 2 holders
- 1 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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14 June 1497 CE – 1 November 1503 CE Cesare Borgia Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal
No dates recorded 1
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Dates unrecorded Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia son of Pope Alexander VI
Cardinal-deacon
- 3 holders
- 1 overlap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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17 September 1456 CE – 30 August 1471 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
Overlap held at the same time as Alexander VI
June 1458 CE – 11 August 1492 CE Alexander VI pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503) -
23 September 1493 CE – 18 August 1498 CE Cesare Borgia Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal Has references
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How House of Borgia connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of it cites only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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