Louise Borgia (Italian: Luisa; 1500 – 1553) was a French noblewoman. She was the only legitimate child of Cesare Borgia via his wife, Charlotte d'Albret. Her paternal grandparents were Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei, while her maternal grandparents were Alain d'Albret and Françoise of Châtillon-Limoges. She had a minimum of eleven half-siblings born out of her father's liaisons with various women.
Biography[]
Early life[]
On 17 May 1500, Louise was born, the product of a marriage alliance her father arranged in a bid to secure French loyalty.[1] Without ever having met her father from birth, Louise was raised by her mother Charlotte, and seemed to speak French either primarily or exclusively even as a child living in Rome.[2]
In 1504, when she was four years old, Louise was present as the Assassins Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli visited her mother in her villa in the Pinciano district to ask the whereabouts of Cesare. Charlotte, who was busy preparing to return to France with Louise, told the Assassins of Cesare's estrangement from herself and her daughter, and that she had no information to offer them.[2]
Later life[]
Louise would go on to later to inherit her mother's title of Dame de Chalus in 1514 after her death. She married Louis II de la Trémoille in 1517, the marriage ended up being childless when he died in 1525. She married her second husband, Philippe de Bourbon, Seigneur de Bourbon-Busset on 3 February 1530 and together they had six children. Louise later died at the Château de Busset in 1553.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Louise Borgia on Wikipedia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Chapter 50