Juan de Borja Lanzol de RomanÃ, el mayor
Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romani (also: Juan de Borgia; * 1446 Valencia; † August 1, 1503 in Rome) was archbishop of Monreale, Administrator of Olomouc, Bishop of Melfi, Bishop of Ferrara, Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Latin Titularpatriarch Konstantin Opel.
Life
He was the son of Juana de Borja, sister of Rodrigo Borgia, and Pere Guillem Llançol de Romani, eighth señor de Villalonga. Juan de Borgia was thus a relative of the Popes Sixtus IV and Alexander VI. On September 13, 1483, he was appointed Archbishop of Monreale and collected on August 31, 1492, Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna. From 1496 to 1500 he was also a cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Portico.
After the resignation of the Olomouc administrator Ardicino della Porta in 1492, the Pope Juan de Borgia appointed as his successor. Although he had the diocese of Olomouc never entered, he held this office on 8 February 1493 to 30 January 1497th in the Olomouc Bishop list he is called John XV. Borgia respectively. Only after the then Olomouc canon Stanislaus Thurzos on behalf of the chapter with Pope Alexander VI. negotiated by the reoccupation of the bishop chair, renounced Juan de Borgia in 1497 for an annual pension of 500 ducats to the Olomouc bishop.
In addition, Juan de Borgia was:
- Of 19 September 1494 to the December 3, 1498 Bishop of Melfi and
- Since October 29, 1494 Bishop of Ferrara.
- On April 24, 1503 it got the Pope to Latin ( titular ) Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. With this Office, the Catholic Church upheld the justified after the 4th crusade entitled to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Opel.