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-"Borgia stirps: BOS : atque Ceres transcendit Olympo, Cantabat nomen saecula cuncta suum." -Michele Ferno
Although the House of Borgia, which gave to the Church of Rome two popes and at least one saint, (1) is to be traced back to the eleventh century, claiming as it does to have its source in the Kings of Aragon, we shall take up its history for our purposes with the birth at the city of Xativa, in the kingdom of Valencia, on December 30, 1378, of Alonso de Borja, the son of Don Juan Domingo de Borja and his wife Doña Francisca.