MILITARY PERSONNEL

Cesare Borgia

1475 - 1507

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Cesare Borgia (13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was a cardinal deacon and later an Italian condottiero. He was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI of the Aragonese House of Borgia and was a sibling to Lucrezia Borgia. After initially entering the Church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the papacy, he resigned his diaconal profession after the death of his brother in 1498. He was employed as a condottiero for King Louis XII of France around 1500, and occupied both Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cesare Borgia is the 31st most popular military personnel (down from 26th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Italy (down from 131st in 2019) and the most popular Italian Military Personnel.

Cesare Borgia is most famous for being the son of Pope Alexander VI and for his military conquests in Italy.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Cesare Borgia ranks 31 out of 2,058. Before him are William Wallace, Themistocles, Ptolemy I Soter, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Cao Cao, and Erich von Manstein. After him are Jan Žižka, Wilhelm Keitel, Heinz Guderian, Friedrich Paulus, Miltiades, and Vercingetorix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Cesare Borgia ranks 3. Before him are Michelangelo, and Pope Leo X. After him are Paolo Uccello, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Diego de Almagro, Beatrice d'Este, Sebastiano Serlio, Bernardino Luini, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Anne of York, and Afonso, Prince of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1507, Cesare Borgia ranks 1. After him are Gentile Bellini, Martin Behaim, Francis of Paola, Cosimo Rosselli, and Albertus Pictor.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cesare Borgia ranks 176 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Benedict IX (1012), Agatha of Sicily (235), Nerva (30), Pope Adrian I (700), Pope Gregory X (1210), and Bud Spencer (1929). After him are Pope Celestine III (1106), Pope Boniface IX (1350), Pope Gregory VIII (1100), Pope Innocent VII (1339), Luigi Galvani (1737), and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-89).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Cesare Borgia ranks 1. After him are Germanicus (-15), Nero Claudius Drusus (-38), Andrea Doria (1466), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Giovanni Giustiniani (1418), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Federico da Montefeltro (1422), Sejanus (-20), and Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609).

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