Borgia family; Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572; Italy -- History -- 1492-1559
(γ) The eldest son, Don Ettore di Pietro Borgia, married Madonna
Porzia Landi, who bore him two sons:—The younger, Don Alessandro
Borgia became Dean of the cathedral chapter of his native city.
The elder, Don Camillo Borgia, became Governor of Velletri,
married the Noble Madonna Constantia Gallinella, and died in
1645. His epitaph,[118] in the chapel of the Visitation of the
Παρθενομητηρ (the patron-saint of the Veliternian Borgia) in the
cathedral of San Clemente at Velletri, is as follows
D. T. V.
CAMILLO BORGIAE NOBILI
VELITERNO
HECTORIS I.C. ET D. PORTIAE LANDAE
FILIO NON MINUS CELEBRI
AVORUM TOGA ET ARMIS INSIGNIUM
CLARITUDINE ILLUSTRI
IN PATRIAE REGIMINE
CONSULI JUDICI ET RECTORI
VIGILANTISSIMO
VITAE CANDORE MORUM SUAVITATE
UBIQ. CLARO OMNIBUS CHARO
ANNO AET. SUAE LV ET MEN. IV
EXTINCTO
DIE XXVI. SEPT. A PARTU VIRGINIS
M. DC. XLV
ALEXANDER I.V.D. ET HUIUS CATHED.
CANONICORUM DECANUS FRATER
HECTOR I.V.D. EX NOBILI CONSTANTIA
GALLINELLA FILIUS
EXTREMUM AMORIS
MONUMENTUM
MŒSTISS . POSUERE[119]
Don Camillo Borgia left three sons,
(α) The youngest, Don Giampaolo Borgia, was a canon of Velletri:
(β) The second, Don Ettore Borgia, was a celebrated Jurisprudent, who
held governorships of pontifical cities, and was auditor-general
and familiar of Prince Savelli, the Hereditary Marshal of the
Holy Roman Church:
(γ) The eldest, the Noble Don Clemente Erminio Borgia, Roman
Patrician, and Governor of Velletri, who married Madonna Cecilia
Carboni, by whom he had seven children at the least.
Five of these children of Don Clemente Erminio Borgia have been traced.
They were
(α) Madonna Angela Caterina Borgia, who became a nun in a convent of
Santa Lucia _in Silice_ at Rome, and who died In The Odour Of
Sanctity:
(β) Don Fabrizio Borgia, born 1689, studied ten years with his uncle
Canon Giampaolo Borgia, became Bishop of Ferentino in 1729, and
died in 1754:
(γ) Don Cesare Borgia, was a Knight-Commander of the Order of St. John
of Jerusalem of Malta in 1703:[120]
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