He sanctioned the partitioning of Naples in the Secret Treaty of Granada and approved a divorce from Jane of Valois to one of its signatories, Louis XII, in order to win support from France after its earlier ruler, Charles VIII, had invaded Italy.
His rise to power was clinched by a filibuster that pressured the senile Maffeo Gherardo into pledging to support him. He sanctioned the partitioning of Naples in the Secret Treaty of Granada and approved a divorce from Jane of Valois to one of its signatories, Louis XII, in order to win support from France after its earlier ruler, Charles VIII, had invaded Italy. The defeat of his army at Soriano resulted in the murder of one of his sons, the Duke of Gandia, while another one employed Don Michelotto and savagely raped Caterina Sforza. An affair with Vanozza Catanei produced those children by this man, who brokered the Treaty of Tordesillas and succeeded Innocent VIII. FTP, identify this nephew of Calixtus III, a Spanish-born pope and father to Juan, Cesare and Lucrezia.
His rise to power was clinched by a filibuster that pressured the senile Maffeo Gherardo into pledging to support him.
{Alexander VI} or {Rodrigo Borgia}