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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Cesare Borgia

1475 - 1507

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Cesare Borgia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtʃeːzare ˈbɔrdʒa, ˈtʃɛː-]; Valencian: Cèsar Borja [ˈsɛzaɾ ˈbɔɾdʒa]; Spanish: César Borja [ˈθesaɾ ˈβoɾxa]; 13 September 1475 – 12 March 1507) was an Italian cardinal and condottiero (mercenary leader), an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Valencian (Spanish-Aragonese) House of Borgia. His fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. After initially entering the Church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the papacy, he resigned after the death of his brother in 1498. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cesare Borgia has received more than 5,361,674 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Cesare Borgia is the 26th most popular military personnel (down from 24th in 2019), the 121st most popular biography from Italy (up from 125th 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 26 out of 1,468Before him are Arminius, Ratko Mladić, Ptolemy I Soter, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Cao Cao, and Charles XIV John of Sweden. After him are Simo Häyhä, Jochi, Wilhelm Keitel, Friedrich Paulus, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Vercingetorix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Cesare Borgia ranks 3Before 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, Afonso, Prince of Portugal, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, and Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick. Among people deceased in 1507, Cesare Borgia ranks 1After him are Martin Behaim, Gentile Bellini, Francis of Paola, and Cosimo Rosselli.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Cesare Borgia ranks 121 out of 4,668Before him are Agatha of Sicily (235), Scipio Africanus (-235), Pope Pius V (1504), Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820), Cardinal Mazarin (1602), and Sulla (-138). After him are Pope Pius III (1439), Pope Urban VIII (1568), Pope Clement I (40), Pope Gregory XVI (1765), Plautus (-254), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Italy

Among military personnels born in Italy, Cesare Borgia ranks 1After him are Germanicus (-15), Andrea Doria (1466), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), Nero Claudius Drusus (-38), Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Giovanni Giustiniani (1418), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Gaius Claudius Glaber (-200), Sejanus (-20), and Federico da Montefeltro (1422).