Talk:Cesare Borgia/@comment-2.33.244.107-20120621082307/@comment-89.100.212.151-20160326195454

Italian girl is right - Cesare was a younger son. Pedro Luis, 1st Duke of Gandia was the eldest son born a good 10/15 years before Cesare was Alexander's hope for continuing the Borgia name in Spain. Cesare was a younger son (Possibly another brother named Bernardo before him) and his father wanted him in the chuch. Pedro Luis died around 1488 by then Cesare had a number of religious positions as archdeacon and Pedro Luis requested in his will that his duchy be inherited by his younger brother Juan/Giovanni.