Daughter of the man who became Pope Alexander VI, she became infamous for intrigues & poisonings
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Pope Alexander VI - NNDB.com  Alexander VI, given name Rodrigo Borgia, Roman Catholic Pope from 1492 until his ... The connection began in 1470, and she bore him many children whom he ... of the corruption of the papal court is the fact that Borgia's daughter Lucrezia ... his relatives at the expense of the church and of his neighbors became manifest.
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Pope Alexander VI - New World Encyclopedia  Pope Alexander VI (January 1, 1431  August 18, 1503), born Rodrigo Borja (Italian: .... to the papacy the engagement was cancelled, and in 1493 she was married to .... Violent and revengeful, he now became the most powerful man in Rome, .... According to Burchard, Alexander VI's stomach became swollen and turned to...
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'Blood and Beauty: The Borgias,' by Sarah Dunant - The New York ...  Jul 5, 2013 ... Did Rodrigo Borgia sleep with his daughter, Lucrezia, as her first ... "A carnal man and very loving of his flesh and blood": Pope Alexander VI, circa 1485. ... writes, so that he becomes stronger and more potent in their presence. ... BR11 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Poison, Incest, Intrigue.
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Pope Alexander VI - Wikipedia  Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic Borgia was Pope from 11 August 1492 until his death. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, partly because he acknowledged fathering several children by his mistresses. Therefore his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for ... Rodrigo Borgia was also an intelligent man with an appreciation for the arts...
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The 6 Most Awful Popes - Something Awful  Apr 24, 2008 ... Why He is Awful: Alexander VI became the Halliburton and Dick Cheney of ... in the wealth and involving the Holy See in French and Italian political intrigues, ... One of his most infamous stunts was to use his attractive daughter ... man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's...
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10 Little-Known Facts About Cleopatra - History in the Headlines  Aug 12, 2015 ... Share this: ... On August 12, 30 B.C., the Egyptian queen Cleopatra took her own life inside a ... Her first sibling-husband, Ptolemy XIII, ran her out of Egypt after she tried to ... to her younger brother Ptolemy XIV, but she is believed to have had him ... of her sister, Arsinoe, who she considered a rival to throne.
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J! Archive - Show #2579, aired 1995-11-16  Akin to "caught in the act", to be caught this way alludes to a murderer ... Tsarina Alexandra frequently prayed on the grave of this mystic murdered in 1916...
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Antigone Becomes Jocasta: Soha Bechara, <cite>Rsistante</cite ...  For me, the fact that I was a girl, that I put my family in danger, that I was ... The Resisters include Bechara, her fellow militants, and the interviewers and ... Bechara's complex and dynamic family becomes the very medium through which she ... Her mother's nephews joined the SLA.13 Her father's father, Hanna, a stern and...
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Emperor Nero: Facts & Biography - Live Science  Oct 8, 2013 ... Roman emperor Nero is one of the most infamous men who ever lived. ... was also her uncle) in A.D. 49, and she saw to it that he adopted her son, ... Officially, the reason given for Nero's orders to kill his own mom in A.D. 59 was that she ... he banished her besides; and finally he had her put to death on a...
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by ...  This is a good, thorough biography of Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, from her .... While some people may find Bradford's meticulous approach to Lucrezia dull, the books ... If you are not a hardcore fan of whatever she's writing about--in this case the Borgia ..... I am not afraid of filling that DNF shelf right up.
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Lucrezia Borgia - Wikipedia  After the death of Lucrezia's second husband, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged a third marriage. She then married Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara,...
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Valeria Messalina - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Jul 16, 2013 ... Little is known about Messalina before she married Claudius. She was born around 20 -22 CE, the second child and first daughter of a fairly ... Her husband, Marcus Vinicius, was also executed on a charge of adultery. ... but had gone so far as to commit bigamy with Gaius Silius, and even sign a formal...
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Cesare Borgia - Wikipedia  Cesare Borgia Duke of Valentinois, was an Italian condottiero, nobleman, politician, and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI (r. .... Giovanni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from Pesaro;...
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8 Things You Might Not Know about Mary I - History in the Headlines  Feb 16, 2016 ... The daughter of King Henry VIII, Mary, a devout Catholic, ascended to the throne in 1553. ... state religion and sanctioned the persecution of Protestants, hundreds of whom were burned at the stake, earning her the nickname Bloody Mary. ... In 1554, a group of Englishmen, attempted to overthrow Mary,...
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Lucrezia Borgia - Wikipedia  Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. ... Lucrezia Borgia was born at Subiaco, near Rome. Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the mistresses of Lucrezia's father, Rodrigo Borgia (Pope...
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Gabriel Malagrida - Wikipedia  Gabriel Malagrida (18 September or 6 December 1689  September 1761) was an Italian ... Malagrida was famously caught up in the Tvora affair and executed as a ... I of Portugal, who had succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father. ... He magnified an act of private vengeance on the part of a jealous husband...
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Marie Antoinette - New World Encyclopedia  Apr 28, 2015 ... Queen of France and Navarre ... She was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and ... for her death: she was executed by guillotine in 1793 for the crime of ... Marie Antoinette's brother, Emperor Joseph II, visited her in April 1777. ... Later, when she tried to have her friend, the duc de Guines,...
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Historical Villains Who May Not Have Been That Bad | The Lone Girl ...  Sep 27, 2013 ... Still, though Richard III may have been a ruthless ruler but he not much ... Yet, once he does kill Duncan and becomes king him and his wife not only .... She was an admirer of Machiavelli and used The Prince as a self-help ... certainly deserves her bad reputation as a ruthless power behind the throne of...
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Patriarch Alexy II Was Poisoned!!  Dec 5, 2008 ... Patriarch Alexy II (February 23, 1929 to December 5, 2008). ... II was spearheading a spectacular revival of the long suffering church: ... two thirds of the people, as well as much of the country's political elite. ... The Latin Papacy has been a bitter rival of the Greek and Russian churches for almost 1000 years.
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Lucrezia Borgia - Illegitimate Daughter of a Pope - Women's History  Lucrezia Borgia with her father Pope Alexander VI - De Agostini Picture Library / DEA / ... She had three political marriages, arranged for her family's advantage, and likely ... A later mistress, Giulia Farnese, was the mother of Orsino Orsini and Laura .... In August, Lucrezia's brother Cesare became the first person in church...
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The Other Ptolemy Girl - Arsinoe IV - Dangerous Women Project  Jul 8, 2016 ... Hiding between the lines is a young woman with her own agenda, capable of ... Their father had returned from exile to kill their older sister, Berenice, and ... the Roman general angrily summoned Cleopatra to Tarsus in Asia Minor to ... So much for Arsinoe IV, the failed queen of Egypt. ... You may also like...