Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós

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Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós (1524–1537) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography[]

A member of the House of Borgia, Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós was born in Gandía in 1524, the son of , 3rd Duke of Gandía, and his second wife Francisca de Castro y de Pinós.^[1] He was the half-brother on his father's side of Saint Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and of Enrique de Borja y Aragón. He was the great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.^[1]

He inherited the barony of Navarrés by cessation of his father on June 8, 1530.^[1] He joined the Order of Santiago in 1533.^[1]

At a very young age, Pope Paul III created him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of December 22, 1536.^[1] He received the deaconry of San Nicola in Carcere on January 15, 1537.^[1] He died almost immediately after , dean of the collegiate church of Gandía arrived with the red hat.^[1]

He died in the ducal palace of Gandía on August 6, 1537.^[1]

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