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  June 24 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava.
After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francis Borgia
RANCISCO DE Francis Borgia, born 28 October, 1510, was the son of Juan Borgia, third Duke of Gandia, and of Juana of Aragon; died 30 September, 1572.
His grandfather, Juan Borgia, the second son of Alexander VI, was assassinated in Rome on 14 June, 1497, by an unknown hand, which his family always believed to be that of Cæsar Borgia.
The task of Borgia was to establish, first at Rome, then in all the provinces, wisely regulated novitiates and flourishing houses of study, and to develop the cultivation of the interior life by establishing in all of these the custom of a daily hour of prayer.
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 Life in Italy: Cesare Borgia
The Borgias had their eye on Carlotta, the daughter of the king of Naples because she would bring the rich city of Tarento with her as part of her dowry.
He strangled Alfonso, the nephew of the king of Naples, while the young man was in his sick bed.
At the time, Alfonso was recovering from stab wounds which were inflicted on him during a sneak attack just outside the papal palace, an attack that Cesare supposedly ordered.
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 Italy
This appalling deed destroyed the last bastion of continuity with the Classical World and ushered in the brief and pathetic Latin Empire in Romania.
Francesco Maria II married a granddaugher, Lucretia, of Lucretia Borgia, whose children otherwise failed to continue the line of d'Este in Modena.
Later, Joanna II of Naples left her rights to René I the Good of Anjou, but he was unable to hold off Alfonso V of Aragon and Sicily.
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 Timeline 1450-1499
He was a historian and author of "The Prince." He saw in Cesare Borgia, the bastard son of Pope Alexander VI, the prospect of an Italy free of foreign control.
It is held by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
1475 Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Rodrigo Borgia Lanzol, later Pope Alexander VI (1492-1503), was born.
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