Rodrigo Borja

Background

Rodrigo de Borja was born in 1349 in Játiva, Comunidad Valenciana.

Career

He was head of house for this branch of the Borja family based on Ventres street in Játiva, the same branch which would later go on to become the infamous Borgia family in Italy. Rodrigo"s great grandson would go on to become Pope Alexander VI.

Achievements

• His paternal great grandfather, Rodrigo de Borja, the presumed founder of their branch of House Borja, participated in the Conquest of Orihuela in 1272.