Who was the Pope who had a mistress?

Question

and children and paid another man to marry his mistress, and pretend the children were his. And allow the Pope to visit his mistress whenever he wanted to. Is that story true.???

Answer 1

Pope Alexander VI (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503), born Roderic Borja (Italian: Borgia), (reigned from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance and one whose surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was born at Xativa, Valencia, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol (Castilian) or Llançol (Catalan); he assumed his mother's family name of Borja on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Calixtus III in 1455.
Alexander VI had four children by his mistress (Vannozza dei Cattani), three sons and a daughter: Giovanni, Cesare, Goffredo (or Giuffre) and Lucrezia. Cesare, while a youth of seventeen and a student at Pisa, was made Archbishop of Valencia, and Giovanni received a cardinal's hat and the dukedom of Gandía, the Borgias' ancestral home in Spain. For the Duke of Gandía and for Giuffrè/Goffredo the Pope proposed to carve fiefs out of the papal states and the Kingdom of Naples. Among the fiefs destined for the duke of Gandía were Cerveteri and Anguillara, lately acquired by Virginio Orsini, head of that powerful house.

Answer 2

TRUE. If a pope had a mistress it must have been in the very early centuries when priests were allowed to marry . in modern time they are not allowed to marry but it does not mean that they had not fathered children...

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Answer 3

Pope Alexander VI

Pope Alexander VI (1 January 1431 – 18 August 1503), born Roderic Borja (Italian: Borgia), (reigned from 1492 to 1503), is the most controversial of the secular popes of the Renaissance and one whose surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era. He was born at Xativa, Valencia, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol (Castilian) or Llançol (Catalan); he assumed his mother's family name of Borja on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Calixtus III in 1455.

Answer 4

Many many popes were accused of such things, in many cases it was probably true, in some it was probably just rumors by political rivels to discredit them. But Check out Alexander VI, he was from a period were popes were chosen based purely on politics and it is widely believed that many of the popes from that period were little more than puppets for the borgias who controled then through their political and sexual wiles.

Answer 5

I expect that you mean Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) Who had several children by his mistress Vanoza. Other Popes of that era had mistress also

Answer 6

You realize this is like asking which bear crapped in the woods? See the link below and take your pick. A list of celibate popes would be shorter than a list of sexually active ones.

Answer 7

You'll have to take a pick. That describes most of the old time popes.

Answer 8

Quite a few of them. The word 'nepotism' comes from Latin nepots 'nephew', from all these 'nephews' of the Pope running around with nice jobs.

Answer 9

Which ONE? Why do you think so many popes had so many "nephews" they sought to find good jobs in the church for?

Answer 10

i'm sure there have been more than one. the popes in the dark and middle ages were pretty corrupt.