Juan Castellar y de Borja

Juan Castellar y de Borja (1441–1505) (called the Cardinal of Trani and the Cardinal of Monreale) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

His Eminence

Juan Castellar y de Borja
Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale
Orders
Created cardinal31 May 1503
by Alexander VI
Personal details
BornDecember 1441
Valencia
DiedValencia
Previous postArchbishop of Trani (1493 – 1503)

Biography

Juan Castellar y de Borja was born in Valencia in late 1441, the son of Galcerán de Castellar, señor de Picassent and Alcàsser, and his wife Bernardona Borja.[1] The Castellar family was allied with the Borja family.[1] He was a cousin of Cardinal Juan de Borja Lanzol de Romaní, el mayor.[1]

Early in his career, he became a canon of the cathedral chapter of Seville Cathedral. He later also became a canon of Naples Cathedral, the Cathedral of Toledo, and Burgos Cathedral. Moving to Rome, he became a protonotary apostolic.[1]

On August 23, 1493, he was elected Archbishop of Trani. In the same year, Pope Alexander VI named him governor of Perugia.[2] On February 17, 1502, he was one of six cardinals and six prelates who accompanied the pope on his trip to Piombino.[1]

Pope Alexander VI made Castellar a cardinal priest in the consistory of May 31, 1503. He received the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on June 12, 1503.[1]

On August 9, 1503, he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Monreale. He occupied the post until his death.[1]

He participated in both the papal conclave of September 1503 that elected Pope Pius III and the papal conclave of October 1503 that elected Pope Julius II.[1]

On July 7, 1504, he left Rome to visit Ferdinand II of Aragon. He became ill in Valencia, and after several months, died on January 1, 1505, of a kidney ailment. He was buried in the Augustinian convent in Valencia.[1]

See also

References
  1. Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
  2. Leopardi, Monaldo (1832). Vita di Niccolo Bonafede: vescovo di Chiusi e officiale nella corte Romana dai tempi di Alessandro VI ai tempi di Clemente VII (in Italian). Pesaro: Annesio Nobili. p. 24.
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