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Alexander and VI
Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was " discovered " by Heracleides, a former minister of Antiochus IV and brother of Timarchus, an usurper in Media who had been executed by the reigning king Demetrius I Soter.
He was buried in the Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli, the Spanish national church in Rome, immediately below the tombs of Pope Callixtus III and Pope Alexander VI.
* 1480 – Lucrezia Borgia, Florentine ruler and daughter of Pope Alexander VI ( d. 1519 )
With the Papal Bull of 1493, Pope Alexander VI commanded Spain to conquer, colonize and convert the Pagans of the New World to Catholicism.
He was the son of Pope Alexander VI and his long-term mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei.
He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.
Cesare's father, Pope Alexander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children by a lover.
Alexander VI staked the hopes of the Borgia family in Cesare's brother Giovanni, who was made captain general of the military forces of the papacy.
But when Savonarola publicly accused Pope Alexander VI of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public.
Together, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were known as the " Catholic Monarchs " (), a title bestowed on them by Pope Alexander VI.
In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.
Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.
It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.
This instrument also found its way to parts of Italy that were under Spanish domination ( especially Sicily and the papal states under the Borgia pope Alexander VI who brought many Catalan musicians to Italy ), where it was known as the viola da mano.
Lucrezia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519 ) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei.
Her mother was Vannozza dei Cattanei, one of the many mistresses of Lucrezia's father Rodrigo Borgia, who is better known as Pope Alexander VI.
When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.
The second, contradictory, bull recognized him as the son of Pope Alexander VI.
After the death of her second husband, Lucrezia's father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged a third marriage.
* 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
* 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
* 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a Papal Bull by Pope Alexander VI.
* 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

Alexander and alleged
* Alexander Flynn-The alleged mutant son of Doctor Doom and an unidentified gypsy lady.
The first of them was Rodrigo de Borja (" Borgia " in Italian ), that later became Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), infamous for his alleged corruption and immorality.
According to Alexander Litvinenko, Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin was drugged with the same substance by FSB agents during his alleged kidnapping.
* The Macedonian general Parmenion declares for Alexander III and assists in the murdering of the princes of the Lynkestis region, who are alleged to be behind Philip's murder, along with other possible rivals and members of factions opposed to Alexander.
The Kornilov Affair, or the Kornilov Putsch ( Kornilov Coup ) as it is sometimes referred to, was an ( alleged ) attempted coup d ' état by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, General Lavr Kornilov, in August 1917 against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky.
Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, a former CIA agent was indicted under the Act in January 2011 for alleged unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to James Risen, a New York Times reporter, in 2003 regarding his book State of War.
* This is also the alleged age that Alexander the Great ( Alexander of Macedonia ) died at, the age of 33
In November 1998, five officers of FSB led by Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Litvinenko, in a televised press-conference revealed an alleged plot by their superiours to assassinate Berezovsky.
Dershowitz responded in his book The Case for Peace and alleged a politically motivated campaign of vilification spearheaded by Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Cockburn against several pro-Israel academics.
* Igor the Assassin, name given to one of the alleged assassins of Alexander Litvinenko
De Roo believes that a more credible explanation for the alleged " orgy " is a later interpolation of events by those hostile to Alexander:
Maxentius retaliated with confiscations of the property of alleged supporters of Alexander.
In 1977, a People article by Alexander Butler alleged that one of the most important journalists under the control of Operation Mockingbird was Joseph Alsop, whose foreign affairs articles appeared in over 300 different newspapers.
Alexander Pedachenko ( alleged dates 1857 – 1908 ) was named in the 1923 memoirs of William Le Queux, Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks.
Alexander Pope, who in his Moral Essays ( Epistle to the Earl of Burlington ) was alleged to have ridiculed Cannons under the guise of Timon's Villa, later referred to the Duke in the line, " Thus gracious Chandos is belov'd at sight "; but Jonathan Swift, less complimentary, called him a great with every court.
In the wake of Phillip II's death, it is alleged by hostile sources that Demosthenes of Athens wrote a letter to Attalus promising Athens ' support if the two made war on Alexander.
In some cases families treated the university chairs as hereditary, and critics alleged that Alexander Monro III exemplified the " mediocrity " this could produce.
The director of Pacific operations for the OWI, Owen Lattimore, who later accompanied U. S. Vice-President Henry Wallace on a mission to China and Mongolia in 1944, was later alleged to be a Soviet agent on the basis of testimony by a defector from the Soviet GRU, General Alexander Barmine.
Taken to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Vandamme was accused of looting, but is alleged to have replied, " I am neither a plunderer nor a brigand but in any case, my contemporaries and history will not reproach me for having soaked my hands in the blood of my father " ( an allusion to the murder of Paul I of Russia ).
It is alleged that Alexander Redmond received favourable terms from Cromwell and died in the Hall in 1650 or 1651 after which his surviving family were evicted.
He then re-emerges as his alleged illegitimate son Alexander Luthor, Jr.
Alexander Ure's integrity is widely open to question: he misled the Court in the trial of Oscar Slater for the murder of Marion Gilchrist in 1909 ( Slater was convicted but subsequently pardoned on appeal and freed ); it could be alleged he conspired with the police, Fiscal and Crown Office to prevent two brothers being prosecuted for the murder.

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