“Priests who are scions of the House of Borgia may anticipate or postpone their recitation of the Breviary Offices without observing the fixed hours, reciting the whole office at once, or dividing it at their pleasure. V “To female scions of the House of Borgia, or connections by marriage, liberty once a month to enter the enclosure of nuns,[107] taking with them four others to converse with the nuns, and to eat with them, provided only that they do not remain for the night.” (_La heroica vida, etc., del grande San Francisco de Borja, by Cardinal Alvaro Cienfuegos. Madrid, 1717._ I. iii. 3, 4.) The marriage of the Marquess Don Francisco, and the Marchioness Doña Leonor, of Lombay, resulted in the birth of eight children, who were, Don Carlos, the heir: Don Juan, Count of Ficalho; Viceroy of Portugal; Ambassador of King Don Felipe III.; Author of _Empresas Morales_ (1581); Married to Doña Lorenza Oñaz de Loyola, heiress of Don Beltrano, Señor de Loyola: Don Alvaro, Marquess of Alcaguizes; Ambassador of King Don Felipe III to the Holy See: Don Hernando, Knight of the Order of Calatrava: Don Alonso, Chamberlain to the Empress Maria: Doña Isabella, married Don Francisco de Sandoval y Rojas, Marquess of Denia, Count of Lerina: (from this marriage descends the ducal house of Lerina:) Doña Juana, married Don Juan Enriquez de Almanas, Marquess of Alcanices: Doña Dorotea, nun at the monastery of Poor Clares in Gandia. Six years the Marquess Don Francisco spent in the duties of a husband, father, and courtier. In 1536, he accompanied Caesar Carlos V on a futile vainglorious expedition into Provence. Harassed by the French commander Montmorency, his vast preparations all nullified, his troops wasted by disease and discredited by disaster, half his army _hors de combat_ by reason of famine and plague, two months of inglorious campaigning sufficed for Caesar Carlos V. The French raised the peasantry against him; his retreat became a rout; and only a shattered fragment of his once-magnificent army reached the gates of Milan. Burning to retrieve his shame in the eyes of Europe, he launched a second vast expedition against Algiers; only to encounter a second ignominious disaster. Such were the Marquess Don Francisco de Borja’s experiences of war. In 1537, died in the monastery of Poor Clares at Gandia, the Suor Maria Gabriella (Doña Maria de Aragona y Luna) widow of the murdered Duke of Gandia (bastard of the Lord Alexander P.P. VI), and grandmother of the Marquess Don Francisco. The same year, also, death claimed his brother Don Rodrigo, who had enjoyed the Cardinal-Diaconate of San Niccolo _in Carcere Tulliano_ only one year.