The Shocking Truth About Lucrezia Borgia D
it’s rumored that lucrecia was in a relationship with her brother chesare but according to her husband the truth was even darker seductress schemer poisoner such words and worse have been used to describe luia boria one of the scandalous children of Pope Alexander I 6 though lucreta is known as a Renaissance fem fatal when we cut through the rumors and myths the truth is much more complicated this is the incredible story of lucreta borja lucreta borja entered the world on April 18th 1480 at the time her father was Cardinal Rodrigo borja not yet Pope Alexander II sure men of the cloth were technically supposed to be celibate but that hardly stopped Rodrigo from fing multiple children with Luca’s mother along with several other women there are plenty of rumors about Luca B’s fem fatal cred but few are as wicked as this
one according to lore lucrezia’s favorite piece of jewelry was a special ring it looked like a normal piece of jewelry until you realized that it contained a hollow cavity apparently lucrecia would use it to poison her enemy drinks luia was considered a great Beauty but she would learn that beauty could be a double-edged sword at the age of 13 lucrecia made it down the aisle after two failed engagements the groom was Giovani sza the couple wed on June 12th 1493 Luca’s husband was 14 years older than her the 13-year-old lucreta found little in common with her 27-year-old first husband Giovani sorza after just four years of mutual unhappiness the mismatched couple would accuse each other of misconduct also known as the Renaissance equivalent of irreconcilable differences of course this disharmony
was politically convenient to the boures not long after Luca’s marriage Borg’s need for an alliance with the sporza family expired with lucrezia’s family and the sportas on opposite sides of a huge conflict with the King of France it was only a matter of time before the couple headed towards a scandalous analment lucretzia was quickly making a name for herself as Italy’s new Troublemaker in a shocking turn of events the bouras planned to kill their useless son-in-law and they would have if it hadn’t been for that meddling lucretzia apparently she got wind of her family’s plot and Wars Forza to get out of Rome but in another version of the story luia doesn’t want to save her husband she actively plots with her family to take care of him after his bride’s family literally threatened to kill him sporta
suddenly thought un analment seemed like a pretty good idea he just had one condition he wanted to keep lca’s dowy that worked well enough for the boras they negotiated that Giovani sporza had to sign a contract saying that the marriage was never consummated because he was impotent after the marriage ended lucretzia rushed herself to a Convent and tried to enjoy some peace and quiet of course her Hasty Retreat only fueled more rumors soon enough there would be an even bigger Scandal she received some concerning news at first it seemed like her brother Giovani had just gone missing but after a week or two it turned out he was never coming home when her brother’s corpse washed up on the shores of the Tyber River it was easy to see that his demise was not due to natural causes Giovani
had been stabbed multiple times the bouras were justifiably distraught by their loss but here’s the worst part some believe that lca’s ex-husband arranged for the brutal attack if the boras hadn’t humiliated him in that impotency Clause maybe Lucas’s brother would still be alive in between the breakdown of her marriage her trip to the nunery and her brother’s violent demise lucreta somehow found time for another scandal the appearance of a secret baby in 1498 a mysterious baby entered the boura family but here’s the thing no one would say which boura it belonged to the boura baby’s parentage stoked a huge debate in Rome with the shocking possibilities playing out as follows the baby was lucrezia’s secret child with her now
ex-husband Giovani sporza lucreta had the baby with her own brother chesiree or it was lucrecia’s baby with her dad the pope these days historians don’t put much faith in any of these options but there’s one other explanation that seems more plausible during lucrezia’s analment proceedings with her ex sporta Italian Nobles accused lucreta of having an affair with her father’s Chamberlain perotto Calderon and the evidence confirming this possible parentage is scandalous remember how luia skipped town and entered a Convent well soon after lucreta settled into the nunnery the body of her alleged lover perotto was found in the Tyber River along with a chambermaid many believed that the boras had per and the maid killed in order to tie up loose
ends and so in March 1498 a boy of Uncertain parentage entered the the bour household the child was named Giovani but is often mysteriously referred to as the Roman child Pope Alexander issued not one but two contradictory papal bills about his parentage one said the boy was the illegitimate offspring of lucrezia’s older brother chesiree but then the pope changed his story and said that the secret love child was his own natural son whatever the truth lucrecia raised the Roman child as a close companion and referred to him as her beloved half brother lucretzia didn’t waste time being single barely a year after splitting up with sporta she walked down the aisle with another Italian hot shot this time the lucky groom was
Alonso of Aragon the illegitimate son of the king of Naples unlike lucrezia’s first marriage this couple was much closer in age and even had a son Rodrigo at first things went well between LCA and husband number two Alonso was a noted Hottie with the teenage couples seeming to like each other very much unfortunately lucretius’s second marriage was also headed towards trouble fast lucrezia’s father Pope Alexander decided to team up with friends who just so happened to to be the enemy of Luca’s new in-laws he betrayed his new son-in-law Alonso by plotting to invade Naples with France by his side terrified of his violent father-in-law the 17-year-old Alfonso decided to skip down and lay low he ran away from Rome leading Pope Alexander to send his men
to track Alonso down despite weeks of hunting they just couldn’t find him leading the Furious Pope to distract himself by indulging in some very Unholy activities Alexander used his son-in-law’s absence as an excuse to give his daughter lucrea a fancy promotion she became the governor of Spoleto and in addition to the official chores she performed luia also did some more scandalous work according to the gossip Mill while lucreta was trying to cope with her crumbling marriage Alexander tasked her with the daughterly duty of managing his bedroom escapades eventually the pope discovered Secret Letters From Alonso to luia realizing that he now had a way to communicate with Alonso Pope Alexander immediately forced his daughter into
luring her beloved husband back Alonso eventually returned to Rome and even better Alexander decided not to punish Alonso for running away but the piece was sadly short-lived lucrezia’s brother chesar accused Alonso of trying to kill him with a crossbow most people don’t believe Cher’s claim and in any other family I’d have my doubts too but when it comes to the boura clan anything goes as you will see on a hot summer night in July of 1500 Alfonso climbed the steps that led to the Vatican at the top he encountered a group of cloaked men who viciously stabbed him all over his body as Alonso fell to the ground the Assassins tried to capture him only for our own men to whisk him away to a nearby place luceta felt certain that the attempt on alonso’s life would be
repeated to keep her husband safe she personally made all of his meals to make sure no one could poison him she also refused to let anyone see him except for his sister and doctor as Alonso began to recover the couple thought that they just might get out of this mess Unfortunately they were very wrong one night a group of Warriors snuck into Alfonso’s Chambers where they proceeded to strangle the already weak man after this attack Alfonso died he was only 19 years old for centuries people have argued over who ordered the hit an Alonso from the Rival orini family to Alfonso’s own nefarious Uncle historians have produced plenty of suspects but there’s fairly compelling evidence that points to one specific person chz boura the brother of
lucreta Not only was he allied with Alfonso’s enemies the French he and Alfonso’s main assassin were old Chums according to lore chz boura set up both attacks on Alonso of Aragon and he wasn’t shy about taking the credit for the vicious actions Apparently after the first attempt on the steps of the Vatican failed chz came up to Alonso and whispered what didn’t happen at lunch could still happen at dinner when word got out about Alfonso’s brutal fate the Roman people immediately began gossiping about the drama behind his demise thanks to rumors spread by lucrezia’s early ex-husband sporta people believe in the most scandalous possible option chesiree had killed Alonso because he was insanely jealous that he got to marry his sister to make things worse people also believed that
lucrecia helped plan the attack in reality lucrecia was utterly devastated by the loss of her second husband when she signed letters as a widow she even changed her name calling herself the most unhappy princess of salar barely 2 years after her second husband kicked the bucket lca’s dad made her marry yet another Alonso Alonso deste the Duke of Ferrara for her part lucreta was not interested in tying the not again when her father brought up the idea of a new marriage lucreta shut him down bitterly saying that her husbands had a record of being very unlucky lcr’s future father-in-law was understandably also hesitant to Wed his heir to Rome’s most scandalous Widow initially after all lucrezia’s two previous marriages had ended in a
declaration of impotence and murder the Duke’s reluctance LED Pope Alexander to take matters into his own hands Alexander implied that the dese family might just lose their lands he sweetened the de with a large dowy and a kushy church job for his new son-in-law oh and he also made the literal King of France write to the Duke and tell him to do what the pope said unsurprisingly the couple married in 1502 the marriage between lucreta and Alonso Dee was very successful and allegedly had a steamy beginning according to One account on their wedding night they did the deed three times how do we know this apparently lucus nosey’s sister-in-law Isabella hired a spy to
watch the newlyweds the Renaissance really was a very different time lucreta seemed to really love her third husband but in order to marry him she had to make a huge sacrifice before walking down the aisle lucrecia had to declare herself a virgin but wait didn’t she already have a kid with her second husband that is correct lucrecia had to give up custody of her beloved toddler Rodrigo she made multiple attempts to regain custody of her child but they all came to not mother and son never saw each other again then the boy contracted a fatal illness in 1512 he was just 12 years old the loss was a terrible one for lcet but as she was seen as the bad girl of the Renaissance people would use her giving up Rodrigo as proof that she had an ice cold
heart lucrecia and her new husband had eight children of their own and lucrecia got to do more than answer her dad’s mail and organize his debauched parties instead she now ran an impressive court at her husband’s Palace lucrecia dove into her new role as The Duchess of Ferrara by focusing on poetry and painting she made a mid-career switch from scandalous Widow to patroness of the Arts ironically for a woman with such a reputation for beauty and love for the Arts there is no definitive surviving portrait of lucrecia boura even so she is reported to have had one particular beautiful feature her thick locks of strawberry blonde hair were so long that they reached past her knees it’s no surprise that men couldn’t resist her even when some of them should have stayed Far Far
Away luia was quite the bad girl in her third marriage historians speculate that she enjoyed an extramarital affair with her own brother-in-law Franchesco II Gonzaga the romance probably began in 1503 and some think it continued until Francesco unfortunately contracted syphilis not too romantic an ending to this affair in any case lcus seemed to have been flagrantly thirsty for her not so secret boyfriend in a stunning move she even named one of her children Franchesco suggesting that her actual husband maybe wasn’t the baby’s real father during her third marriage lrea took great pains to befriend her husband’s sister Isabella deste you know the one who spied on CIA during her wedding night the two ladies had a lot in common as intellectual patronesses of the Renaissance but alas their
friendship was not to be Isabella coldly snubbed lcr’s overtures feeling that she was her rival luia responded with a ruthless betrayal she slept with Isabella’s husband of course but wait wasn’t this third marriage supposed to be a good one if that’s the case why was L pret having all these Affairs here’s the thing lucrecia and Alonso D’s marriage worked despite her third husband’s intense weirdness when Alfonso got bored he didn’t do a puzzle or read a book no he’d either go to his personal Cannon making factory or walk around town in his birthday suit while holding two things his sword and his manhood those Affairs might make a little more sense now right but look CIA did a lot more than have affairs in addition to funding the Arts she also had an
entrepreneurial street she shrewdly invested her cash in marshes so lands could be drained and converted into farmlands she then reinvested the wealth back into convents and hospitals in 1503 Luca’s father Alexander died then in 1505 her brother chesiree was kidnapped and sent to prison only to escape the next year and die in battle lucreta was in fact the last bour standing this poor girl buried both her parents and all of her siblings to this day people are convinced that lucretzia and her brother chesiree were closer than siblings should be but the person who first made this claim actually went way further remember lucrezia’s first husband giovan sza and how her family made him say that couldn’t perform in the sack before he said goodbye to his ex-wife’s family he
gave them one final Parting Gift he said that Pope Alexander broke up him and lucreta so that he could and I quote have the freedom to enjoy himself with his own daughter obviously giovan sorza was still pretty angry about that whole impotence Caan lucreta had an absolutely brutal time when it came to childbirth tragically only four of her children managed to make it to adulthood the other five passed away in infancy or childhood in 1519 lucrecia gave birth to her final child the baby was a premature girl named Isabella and sadly she died on the same day after an absolutely brutal birth lucreta herself would die from postnatal complications 10 days later on June 24th 1519 she was just 39 years
old lucreta borja is still Infamous for her beauty and the many insane rumors about her life she was a woman who successfully navigated the dangerous world of Renaissance politics in fact far from being just a pawn in her family’s schemes Against All Odds lucrea somehow managed to hold influence in her own right thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed this video please like And subscribe
