Borja Family
In 1485 the duchy was purchased by Rodrigo de Borja (future Pope Alexander VI) to his son, Pedro Luis de Borja, after satisfying a debt the king had from the year 1470 with the city of Valencia, Gandia, where acting as a garment.
The title of Duke of Gandia was legitimized by papal bull of Pope Sixtus IV in 1481, involved in the murder of the two famous Medicis in 1478 organized by the Florentine Pazzi come out unscathed and that Lorenzo de Medici "El Magnifico"
On the death of Pedro Luis de Borja was succeeded by his brother Juan Borja who married Maria Enriquez de Luna (Fernando el Catolico premium) of this marriage was born Juan de Borja Enriquez de Luna, who was orphaned by the very young murder of his father John in Rome the year 1497, and who had twelve children by two marriages.
He was the father of Francisco de Borja y Aragon - Gurrea, born in 1510 through his marriage to Jeanne d'Aragon and Gurrea, daughter of the Archbishop of Zaragoza and illegitimate son of Ferdinand II of Aragon "El Catolico, Aragon and Alonso de Ruiz Iborra (born 1469 when Prince Ferdinand of Sicily married in secret with the sister of Henry IV of Castile Isabella, queen of Castile since December 1474 and Queen Consort of Aragon since 1479).
The San Francisco mother of Juana de Borja was the sister of two archbishops Zaragoza successor of his father, and son of Archbishop Ferdinand II of Aragon, Juan de Aragon and Gurrea ( '- Archbishop successor to the 1520 death of his father - Madrid 1530 ) and Hernando or Fernando de Aragon and Gurrea ( '- Archbishop of Saragossa 1536 - 1577), Alfonso of Aragon and Gurrea (Abbot of Montearag n, Huesca, Monzon died in in 1552) and Anne of Aragon, wife of Alfonso de Guzman, 5 th Duke of Medina Sidonia and the successor to Juan Alonso de Guzman, Duque de Medinasidonia 6A.
All of them were orphaned in 1527 by Ana Gurrea being buried in a beautiful tomb prepared by his son Hernando Archbishop in the Cathedral of the Seo of Saragossa showing.
The new duke, married to a Melo - Castro Portuguese high crib attendants of Granada spoiled Empress Consort Isabella of Portugal, the mother of Philip II of Spain, used the title of Marques de Portuguese Lombay task undertaken by the developer of the city Gandia - second wall - and that led to the cultural city into a stage of political and cultural heyday, the Italian Renaissance style.
In 1550, when membership in the Society of Jesus, abdicated in his son, known as Carlos de Borja y Aragon, who married Magdalena Centelles i Folch, sister and heiress of the Count of Oliva, Gandia and remained as one of the nuclei most influential and powerful scene, until the indebtedness of the nobility and Segundas Germanias.
In 1520, Emperor Charles V is included as one of the twenty-five of Spain from First Great Creation. In 1693 the Duchy of Gandia had an important role in the outbreak of the Second Germania.
After the death of Dna. Ana Luisa Maria Antonia de Borja Aragon and Centelles, XII Duchess of Gandia, in 1748 the title of Duke of Gandia is linked to that of the Conde-Duque de Benavente, as Francisco Antonio Alfonso Quinones Pimentel of Lopez de Zuniga Mendoza Sotomayor and her husband Da. Juana Maria Ignacia Magdalena de Borja Aragon and Centelles (sister of the Duchess).
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