High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pope Alexander VI (Catalan: Alexandre VI, Spanish: Alejandro VI, or Alexander Sextus), born Roderic Llancol i de Borja (Castilian Spanish: Rodrigo Lanzol; 1 January 1431, Xativa, Kingdom of Valencia – 18 August 1503, Rome, Papal States) was pope (bishop of Rome) from 1492 until his death in 1503. He is one of the most controversial of the Renaissance popes, and his Italianized surname Borgia became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing his papacy. However, his reputation is mostly drawn from his enemies, the Italian prelates and barons whose power he subverted. Two of Alexander's successors, Sixtus V and Urban VIII, described him as one of the most outstanding popes since St. Peter. His reputation rests more on his considerable skills as a diplomat, politician and civil administrator rather than as a pastor, although regarding the latter he was no less effective than any of the other...

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