Alexander VI

Alexander VI (c. 1431 – 1503) was a Pope, called Borgia from his mother, a Spaniard by birth, obtained the popehood by bribery in 1492 in succession to Innocent VIII. He lived a licentious life and had several children, among others the celebrated Lucretia and the infamous Cæsar Borgia. He died in 1503, after a career of crime, not without suspicion of poison.

In addition to Alexanders III and VI, six of the name were popes: Alexander I, pope from 108 to 117; Alexander II, pope from 1061 to 1073; Alexander IV, pope from 1254 to 1261; Alexander V, pope from 1409 to 1410; Alexander VII, pope from 1653 to 1667, who was forced to kiss his hand to Louis XIV; and Alexander VIII, pope from 1689 to 1691.

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