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 | | He was thus viewed as a valuable link to Milan by the Borgia family, who, with the help of his uncle, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, finalized marriage negotiations in February 1492 between Giovanni, then a middle-aged man, and Lucrezia, the thirteen-year-old illegimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI. |
 | | A proxy marriage took place on June 12 that year, as the wedding contract stipulated that Lucrezia would stay in Rome and not consummate the marriage for a year. |
 | | Some sources state that Giovanni had fathered illegimate children and even married prior to his union with Lucrezia, which is not unreasonable given his age, and therefore genuine impotence on his part would be unlikely. |
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