List of popes from the Borgia family
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The Borgias, also known as the Borjas, were a European Papal family of Spanish
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 origin that became prominent during the Renaissance. The family produced three Popes:
  • Pope Calixtus III, born Alfons de Borja, was Pope from April 8, 1455 to his death in 1458.

  • Pope Alexander VI
    Pope Alexander VI
    Pope Alexander VI , born Roderic Llançol i Borja was Pope from 1492 until his death on 18 August 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his Italianized surname—Borgia—became a byword for the debased standards of the Papacy of that era, most notoriously the Banquet...

    , born Rodrigo Lanzol Borgia, was Pope from 1492 until his death on 18 August 1503.

  • Pope Innocent X
    Pope Innocent X
    Pope Innocent X , born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj , was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle...

    , born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 1644 to 1655. He was the great-great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI, but his surname was not Borgia.
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