Juan Castellar y de Borja | |
|---|---|
| Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale | |
 | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| In office | 1493–1505 |
| Other post(s) | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1503–1505) |
| Orders | |
| Created cardinal | 31 May 1503 by Alexander VI |
| Personal details | |
| Born | December 1441 |
| Died | 1 January 1505 (aged 63) Valencia |
| Previous post(s) | Archbishop of Trani (1493–1503) |
Juan Castellar y de Borja (1441–1505) (called the Cardinal of Trani and the Cardinal of Monreale) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.
Biography
Juan Castellar y de Borja was born in Valencia in late 1441, the son of Galcerán de Castellar, señor de Picassent and Alcàsser, and his wife Bernardona Borja.[1] The Castellar family was allied with the Borja family.[1] He was a cousin of Cardinal Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor.[1]
Early in his career, he became a canon of the cathedral chapter of Seville Cathedral. He later also became a canon of Naples Cathedral, the Cathedral of Toledo, and Burgos Cathedral. Moving to Rome, he became a protonotary apostolic.[1]
On 23 August 1493 he was elected Archbishop of Trani. In the same year, Pope Alexander VI named him governor of Perugia.[2] On 17 February 1502 he was one of six cardinals and six prelates who accompanied the pope on his trip to Piombino.[1]
Pope Alexander VI made Castellar a cardinal priest in the consistory of 31 May 1503. He received the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on 12 June 1503.[1]
On 9 August 1503 he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Monreale. He occupied the post until his death.[1]
He participated in both the papal conclave of September 1503 that elected Pope Pius III and the papal conclave of October 1503 that elected Pope Julius II.[1]
On 7 July 1504 he left Rome to visit Ferdinand II of Aragon. He became ill in Valencia, and after several months, died on 1 January 1505 of a kidney ailment. He was buried in the Augustinian convent in Valencia.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
- ↑ Leopardi, Monaldo (1832). Vita di Niccolo Bonafede: vescovo di Chiusi e officiale nella corte Romana dai tempi di Alessandro VI ai tempi di Clemente VII (in Italian). Pesaro: Annesio Nobili. p. 24.
External links
- (in Spanish) Diario Borja - Borgia, 1503 – Semestre 1°
- (in Spanish) Diario Borja - Borgia, 1503 – Semestre 2°
- (in Spanish) Diario Borja - Borgia, 1505