Beginning Life
Aelxander VI was born at Xativa which is near Valencia and Spain. He was born on Januray 1 in 1431 and his birth name was Rodrigo Borgian. He took his surname from Alfonzo, his mothers brother. Alexander's fathers surname was Lanzol and his mother's family name was Borja.
As he got older he studied law at the University of Bologna. At age 37 he became a priest; however, his uncle made him a cardinal when he was 25 years old. And just a year later, by the time he was 26, he had already become vice chancellor of the papal court.
During his preisthood he had many mistresses and childern, whom he cared for very much. His longest relationship was with Vannozza dei Cattani, he adored her the most out of all of his mistresses before. With whom had many of his children. Over time, he had a number of wives or mistresses and at least twelve children. His most known children were his son Cesare and his daughter Lucrezia. He cared for all of his children and so he arranged suitable marriages for them so that they would have a good family and lives.
Adult Life
Alexander became pope in 1492 at age 62. After Pope Innocent VII had died the three likely candidates to become the next Pope were Cardnials Borgia, Ascanio Sforza and Guilian della Rovera. Since Borgia (Alexander VII) was very wealthy he had succeeded in buying a lot of the votes. He ended up being elected in on August 10.
At first many people thought that his reign showed strict justice and it wasn't like the anacry they have had before. Many people also thought that he might end up sending them to war. His son Cesare was made archbishop of Valencia and his nephew Giovanni became a cardinal. At this time Cervetri and Anguillara both had the chance to be a duke of Gandia. Alexander did not like this idea so he tried to make alliances with the king's enemies. One of the enemies were the Sforza family, lords of Milan. This did not go well with Ferdinand, who believed that it would start a war. Ferdinand hoped that Spain would be able to help in case some incident would occure but Spain wanted to be on good terms with Pope Alexander VI.
On June 14 the Duke of Gandia went missing and was found dead the next day in Tiber. His left Alexander distought and he shut himself up in the Castle Sant'Angelo. He aslo declared that a goal for his life was to reform the church.
Ending Life
Pope Alexander VI death still remains a mystery. Some People Think he died from malaria contracted during a a bad summer in Rome when many of their people died from this disease. Some People also said poisoning, after the Pope’s corpse quickly turned black and had a really bad odor. Like William the Conqueror’s corpse did about five hundred years before.Pope Alexander’s corpse swelled so much that it almost popped when they put it in the coffin.
Sources
http://www.nndb.com/people/159/000092880/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01289a.htm
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/alexanderVI.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/159/000092880/
