Pope Alexander VI: The Infamous "Borgia Pope"

[@Biographics]

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[@harrisonmiller6475]

Last I checked he had Ezio Auditore da Firenzes dad and two brothers hanged on trumped up charges and Ezio became an Assassin.

[@RichO1701e]

19:56 - "Alexander was determined to live by THE CREED!"

[@roshawngreene7069]

I was looking for this comment before posting it myself 😂😂😂😂✌🏾

[@fabioapd]

Assassin's Creed nailed Cesare apperance. He looks exactly like these paintings in the game.

[@PhoenixAscending]

My thoughts exactly

[@RichO1701e]

19:56 - "Alexander was determined to live by THE CREED!"

[@yankeecrazy9]

Hey everyone! Scriptwriter Ben here, I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you'd like to learn more about the life and machinations of Alexander VI and his family, I highly recommend reading "The Borgias: Power and Fortune" by Paul Strathern. Thanks for watching!

[@danidavis7912]

Great script, Ben! Thank you.

[@jamellfoster6029]

Thank you. This was very interesting.

[@chrislittle2366]

Thank you Ben another solid video

[@tomlindsay4629]

I'm only a few minutes in, but am enjoying this educational fun. Thanks for your writing!

[@chrislittle2366]

Another great pick Eric and everyone on the Biographics team keep it up I was waiting on this guy forever

[@ruairiodonohoe2533]

John XII. Man was so wild he died by being thrown from a window by a husband whose wife he was bedding

[@Ruosteinenknight]

Alledgedly. Another version of his death says he died of a heart attack, while having sex with his favorite mistress.

[@gualtersaalves]

@ruairiodonohoe2533 you got worst popes in Stephen VI, exhumed Formosus and triled his corpse, found him guilty of treason, and cut out his blessing fingers and Benedict IX sold the papacy twice...

[@TheJayofthejungle]

It was that dang Piece of Eden! IYKYK

[@RichO1701e]

19:56 - "Alexander was determined to live by THE CREED!"

[@chrislittle2366]

That gives me nostalgia vibes

[@chrislittle2366]

Ben and radu are awesome writers and valuable assets to your team in glad you give them shout-outs

[@stolendrones]

FINALLY. I asked for Rodrigo Borgia years ago!

[@MINDFULBOOKSLibrosparatriunfar]

Greetings from Mexico! 🙋🏻‍♂️ Your videos rock. Thank you all for the excellent work you do 🇺🇸 🇲🇽👏👏👍

[@brackishnz]

Catholics seem to get memory loss when it comes to these popes

[@RichO1701e]

They have selective amnesia over a great many things, brainwashed morons

[@hypertech116]

Alexander VI and his son Cesare generally didn't mess up in governing the Papal States. They were professionals. They only lost because Cesare was too freaking brutal. The problem lies in their immoral behavior. Cesare was fond of massacres and Alexander filled the Vatican with debauchery.

[@revelation20232]

Oh really? Clearly you don't belong to the Catholic community. Borgia and others come up frequently. We talk about popes constantly and compare popes so naturally one of the worst comes up a lot. You're either an anti-RCC Prot, a secular cradle Catholic, or a reddit-atheist. Either way, you pulled your comment out of your ass, nerd.

[@duplicitouscanadian3073]

The vast majority of the Church condemned Rodrigo. His reign was considered a dark time in the churches' existence. Obviously, Duke Valentino's successes were still maintained cause, ya know.....politics.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

His successor literally had a few rooms at the lateran palace bricked up because he felt they had been tainted by his predecessor. Nobody has forgotten, he's very widely discussed and condemned to this day.

[@JackHankeAnd]

Absolutely fascinating. More popes, please!

[@gualtersaalves]

Bro, you're are murdering the names 😮😮 Cejare ... 😂😂

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Thanks For this eric! Love your content ❤❤❤❤

[@Biographics]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:45 - Chapter 1 - The man form valencia 4:20 - Mid roll ads 6:10 - Chapter 2 - The indispensable chancellor 8:55 - Chapter 3 - Roman triumph 12:30 - Chapter 4 - A political chess match 15:05 - Chapter 5 - It all falls apart 18:00 - Chapter 6 - The character of the man 20:40 - Chapter 7 - End of an era 23:35 - Conclusion

[@katrinastorm5907]

Fine I'll rewatch The Borgias again

[@RichO1701e]

which one? Jeremy Irons or John Doman as Rodrigo?

[@katrinastorm5907]

@RichO1701e the good one. Jeremy Irons is so good at being bad dude

[@roshawngreene7069]

Or just play Assassin's Creed II... Again... For the fifth time 😅😅👍🏾💯🤘🏾

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for the information in this video

[@andrewkappler5503]

They said when the put him in the sarcophagus his body was 4x the size smelling putred barley could close the box they considered it all the sins he committed

[@revelation20232]

The grammar, or lack thereof, in your comment is sinful.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

One lf the most infamous popes alright. His children were infamous too... And the fact he so openly had children

[@mgailp]

Wonderful job. I love the Horrible History song about the Borgias - an overview of murder and marriage set to the Adams Family theme. Edit: went back and watched it - I had forgotten poor Gioffre didn't sing. I guess to match the fact that he was so young when married off that he really didn't do much scheming himself.

[@PinkyJujubean]

Weirdly enough I first heard of the Borgia family back in the 90s when someone mentioned Lucretia Borgia on a rerun of Three's Company.

[@bloodygoat6941]

Where tf is Simon? The only reason I had subscribed was him (haven't been on this channel for ages)

[@rogerpenske2411]

I don’t really need Simon on every video

[@mithunkartha]

Simon has a full time career now selling manscape products.

[@RobertBernard-s8m]

The Borgias, such an honest family.

[@theconqueringram5295]

"What drove him: ambition, lust or greed?" I'm guessing all three.

[@baliyae]

I only know of Pope Alexander VI by watching the show The Borgias (which is awesome, by the way).

[@gualtersaalves]

More scandalous than Pope Alexander VI is the way you say Sforza, Curia, and Callistus. 😢😢

[@lindagottschalk3830]

Yes, interesting content and creative pronounciation of various names.

[@gualtersaalves]

The way you say Calicxtus, to a latin person sounds like Ali G saying Restecp 😅😅

[@chishmilongo]

Do Cesare next please

[@mr.whatsgood4840]

Skip to 6:07 to cut the ad

[@mARTin4ARTsake]

it's BS. Borgia wasn't the worst at all. His two predecessors and those after him were at least as corrupt.

[@0ld_Scratch]

Please do his son Cesare next!

[@stevenleslie8557]

It doesn't sound like he struggled with the vow of chasity but embraced the breaking of it.

[@jokodihaynes419]

His family was the inspiration for one of the families on game of thrones

[@efeodugala3119]

Oh come on, Biographics never did an Alexander VI video till now? What in the "Mandela Effect" is going on??

[@christoffellner84]

Thank you for doing Rodrigo Borgia! Well, its difficult to find "the" worst of all Popes. He would have to be an office holder who got so infamous that all his successors would disdain from the actions he choose and who would make even his predecessors blush. An office holder who would be an example in an absolute negative way without much or non ability to get worse. I could drop a few hints, who could be on that list, but in order of time in office. Honorius I. Pope in the 7th century, officially condemed by a Council as a Heretic Stephen VI, Pope at the End of the 9th Century, known for the "Cadaver Synod" Tusculum Popes John XIX/Benedict IX. Popes in the early 11th century, ruled Rome like profan Rules, being replaced and returned to Power. Leo IX, Pope in the Midst of the 11th Century, started the "Great Schism". John XII, Pope around the Mid of the 10th century, said to have gambled and whored. Urban VI, Pope 1378-89 who started a Schism. Alexander VI. Pope 1492-1503 Paul IV. Pope 1555.59 Clement XIV. Leo XII.

[@chrislittle2366]

Maybe calixtus could be a cool one i mean without him there would be no rodeigo Borgia in papal history and maybe Rodrigo's son cesare could be a great one i mean i never get tired of learning about intriguing controversial figures and cesare fits that perfectly

[@katrinastorm5907]

4:08 his cousin ✨️lewis✨️

[@gualtersaalves]

😮😮😮 Guilianno dela Rovére 😅😅😅 stop, please. I'm pissing myself laughing.

[@heatherwilson9717]

As she was announcing the track names people talked about which one was going to be there favorite. I'm a writer. From the moment I heard this title. I KNEW which one was going to be my favorite. I was right.

[@debbylou5729]

Was going to be there favorite. Followed by, ‘I’m a writer’. Ok……

[@cjdragonemperor5374]

Speaking of Cesare, why not give him a biography?

[@ohemge12]

Am I the only person on yt annoyed by the includes paid promotion when you mouseover thumbnails? is that just some malicious compliance by youtube or what? does anyone care about this, why cant you just have that with share/thanks/clip/just remove likes&dislikes completely and put it there since were like a year away from not being able to see likes either anyway. it must jump infront of my mouse every time I try to click a video

[@Talisguy]

The timing of this video is certainly... something.

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed5168]

Borgia was certainly the most [in]famous Pope but certainly not the WORST. My vote goes to Innocet III, the Pope whose ambitions lead to the sack of Constantinople in 1204 and the orchestrator of the Cathar genocide.

[@davidbrennan660]

He was made “ A hat ”….. it was only business not personal.

[@Benito-lr8mz]

The sin of not being "Italian" popes and envy in vast part black legend and falsehood acord history when the rest were the same or worse.

[@Ruosteinenknight]

It also isn't helped that Della Rovere, who had an epic hateboner towards Borgias took the papacy soon after. Della Rovere himself also gathered vast infamy, as dialogue "Julius excluded from heaven" written by Desiderius Erasmus shows.

[@Zeltrax550]

Pope John Paul iv 🤍

[@bigblackjeffery842]

There's not been a John Paul III yet.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

Why can't you guys make videos on some of the good Popes? There have been so many excellent pontiff's over the past 2000 years. Guys like Pius IX, St Clement I, Benedict XV, Julius II, Gregory XVI, Pius VII, Leo XIII, Paul IV, Paul III, St Pius V, St Linus, Pius XII, Gregory the great, St Pius X, Innocent III, Urban II, Leo the great. It's pretty negative and discriminatory that y'all have only tackled bad Popes; do a few good ones to balance things out.

[@matthewsermons7247]

"It's not a sin if the Pope does it". Why does that sound so familiar? Oh, "It's not a crime if the President does it"...

[@rogerpenske2411]

I’m not a crook.

[@mithunkartha]

Where is the bearded chap?

[@bigblackjeffery842]

He came next.

[@RichO1701e]

19:56 - "Alexander was determined to live by THE CREED!" 😂😂😂 I see what you did there.

[@izi941]

When you think of it as “king of the papal state” instead of “head of the Church”, it becomes all clearer 😅 not much different to any other monarchies at the time

[@tomhirons7475]

i think being Obese in those days says it all..

[@gualtersaalves]

By the way , Julius II did not sucedeed Alexander VI, first came Pius III

[@khaleddakhli6138]

But Pius III ruled for a measly 26 days

[@gualtersaalves]

@khaleddakhli6138 but he still comes in the Liber Pontificalis 🤷‍♂️

[@rogerpenske2411]

The Papacy? the Catholic Church? Corrupt? Say it ain’t so!

[@bigblackjeffery842]

Any other institution would have fallen long ago were it not for God.

[@gualtersaalves]

Michael Angelo 😮😮😮😮 are you for real ???😮😮😮 Like Jordan and Jackson 😂😂 bro stop...

[@LuzMaria95]

I love the show the borgias

[@SafetySpooon]

PIUS XII. Hands down!

[@bigblackjeffery842]

Legendary Pontiff, I've also recommended him in my comment. They need to do some good ones to even it out.

[@Democratsrock]

The papacy, one of the oldest and most respected institution in the world. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bigblackjeffery842]

There's no other institution that has persisted for nearly 2000 years in spite of all the rocky periods.

[@silk1435]

I just think of Horrible Histories when I hear about this pope 😄

[@Mr.Vandalia]

If it’s not going to be Simon, at least give us someone with a better speaking voice.

[@paulannable3734]

Just be grateful it’s not AI

[@rogerpenske2411]

Pfft

[@darrenlesueur4785]

do the popes all change their names so we cant see that their all from a handful of families

[@yankeecrazy9]

Apparently the tradition started when popes with "foreign" sounding names changed them so as to fit in with the Roman nobility, then it just kind of became something every pope did.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

It was only really during the Renaissance times where there were a handful of Popes from the same two families. The tradition of choosing a Papal name started when a man with a pagan name was elected back in Roman times.

[@khaleddakhli6138]

He was a great pope , commonly misunderstood , a shrewd diplomat and a capable adminstrator . Regardless of the religious function , a head of state was never supposed to be a saint , not even the Pope of Rome . Alexander VI was and will always be at least for me an exemplary head of state as he was a man of his century , later demonstrated by Niccolo Machiavelli , Borgia strengthened the church and so did Julius ii after him ...

[@bigblackjeffery842]

He may have been a adequate ruler of the papal States but his moral faculties were extremely lacking in the pontifical side of things.

[@briankaz8786]

Francis is the last Pope.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

What about the next Pope?

[@bobthecomputerguy]

TIL the etymology of nepotism.

[@Gday09]

🪢🧶dragged to hiz grave👀Unholy guacamole

[@EmilyJelassi]

Since he's Italian, you should be pronouncing his name as "Boar-shia," as you said at the beginning of the video. Excellent video otherwise! 😊❤

[@CatBuchanan]

HE WAS SPANISH NOT ITALIAN. Sheesh.

[@JW.C396]

All Pope's are infallible.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

Papal infallibility is an intricate thing, I'd recommend reading the papers of the first Vatican council if you'd like to know more on the subject.

[@myababy-on2pe]

Omg so early

[@EGSBiographies-om1wb]

78th

[@Texano5-0]

Note that while we know of a few bad apple popes and bishops. The Church still stands strong and just goes to show that the vast majority of Popes and Bishops, and Priests in general, are virtuous and righteous

[@brandonc5614]

Was the Inquisition virtuous and righteous?

[@grumpybastard5744]

Torturing people for reading the Bible in their own language?

[@RichO1701e]

Brainwashed catholic bootlicker

[@bigblackjeffery842]

​@@brandonc5614yes.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

​@grumpybastard5744 there was not an approved translation back in those days and and thus it was heretical for someone to take it upon themselves to to translate sacred scripture. Scripture is sacred and thus must be defended and protected.

[@davidbrennan660]

There were Popes, Anti Popes and at least one female one I believe…😂

[@bigblackjeffery842]

That's a myth.

[@goldenhawk9322]

I'd say it was Pius XII. He stayed silent while the Nazis were murdering Jews all over Europe.

[@rogerpenske2411]

Allegedly not completely true.

[@bigblackjeffery842]

There is so much wrong with that comment. The official records have been scrutinised diligently by a team at the Vatican and no such evidence of complacency have been found. He has been vindicated.

[@lazy_lefty]

I unsubbed and stopped watching a long time ago bc who wants to watch these if it's not simon whistler lol