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[[Image:Juan de Borja Llançol de Romaní, el mayor.jpg|thumb|right|Juan de Borja Lanzol (Llançol) de Romaní, el mayor]]
[[Image:Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor.jpg|thumb|right|The coat of arms of Juan de Borja Lanzol (Llançol) de Romaní, el mayor]]
'''Juan de Borja Lanzol (Llançol) de Romaní, el mayor''' (1446 – August 1, 1503) was the first of ten [[cardinal-nephew]]s elevated by [[Pope Alexander VI]], the cousin of his father, [[Galcerán de Borja y Moncada]].
==Biography==
Borja was the son of Galcerán de Borja y Moncada and Tecla Navarro de Alpicat, born in 1446.  He was a canon of the cathedral chapter of Valencia and the ''[[Provost (religion)|paborde]]'' of [[Albal]] as well as a minor cleric.<ref name="miranda">{{cite web |last=Miranda |first=Salvador|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |title= BORJA LANZOL DE ROMANÍ, el mayor, Juan de (1446-1503)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1492.htm#Borja|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |access-date=|publisher=[[Florida International University]]|oclc=53276621}}</ref>
[[Pope Sixtus IV]], also a relative, made Borja [[protonotary apostolic]] and an editor of apostolic letters circa 1408. [[Pope Innocent VIII]] made him the [[Governor of Rome]]. Borja had an illegitimate son named Galcerán.<ref name="miranda"/>
He was elected [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Monreale|archbishop of Monreale]] on September 13, 1483, an archdiocese he would never visit but occupy until his death. There is no evidence he was ever ordained a priest or consecrated as bishop.<ref name="miranda"/> After the [[papal conclave, 1492]], which elected Borja's relative Rodrigo pope as Alexander VI, he was created cardinal-priest of [[Santa Susanna|S. Susanna]] on August 31, 1492.
Borja went on to accumulate [[benefice]]s and their associated revenues: he became the administrator of the [[List of bishops and archbishops of Olomouc|see of Olomouc, Moravia]] from February 8, 1493, to January 30, 1497. He was named [[papal legate|legate ''a latere'']] to [[Alfonso II of Naples]] on April 18, 1494. Borja was named [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio|bishop of Ferrara]] on October 29, 1494, taking possession of the see on June 14, 1497, until his death.  He was also the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa|bishop of Melfi]] from September 19, 1494, until December 3, 1498.<ref name="miranda"/>
In May 1494, he attended the coronation of [[Alfonso II of Naples]], along with one patriarch, seven archbishops, and forty bishops; Borja himself crowned Alfronso king on May 18.<ref name="miranda"/><ref>Chambers, 2006, p. 94.</ref> Along with [[Cesare Borgia]] and Alexander VI, Juan met with Alfonso on July 12, 1494, in [[Vicovaro]] to co-ordinate military strategy against Cardinal [[Ascanio Sforza]] (whom Borja would later replace in the  office of the [[Chancellor (ecclesiastical)|Vice-Chancellor]] in 1500) and his allies as well as [[Charles VIII of France]].<ref>Chambers, 2006, p. 95.</ref> He brought Alexander VI's terms of peace to Charles VIII on December 25, 1494, in [[Bracciano]] before retreating with the pontiff on January 7, 1495, to the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] (and then on May 27, 1495, to [[Orvieto]]) to take refuge from French troops. On April 24, 1503, Borja became the titular [[Latin Patriarch of Constantinople]].<ref name="miranda"/>
== In popular culture ==
Juan de Borja is a target in 2010 video game ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''.
==See also==
*[[Juan de Borja (disambiguation)]]
==Notes==
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==References==
*Chambers, D.S. 2006. ''Popes, Cardinals & War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe''. I.B. Tauris. {{ISBN|1-84511-178-8}}.
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