Juan Castellar y de Borja

Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal

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His Eminence Juan Castellar y de Borja
Cardinal, Archbishop of Monreale

Church	Catholic Church
In office	1493–1505
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (1503–1505)
Orders
Created cardinal	31 May 1503 by Alexander VI
Personal details
Born	December 1441 Valencia
Died	1 January 1505 (aged 63) Valencia
Previous post(s)	Archbishop of Trani (1493–1503)

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.

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 23 August 1493 he was elected Archbishop of Trani. In the same year, Pope Alexander VI named him governor of Perugia.^[2] On 17 February 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 31 May 1503. He received the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on 12 June 1503.^[1]

On 9 August 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 7 July 1504 he left Rome to visit Ferdinand II of Aragon. He became ill in Valencia, and after several months, died on 1 January 1505 of a kidney ailment. He was buried in the Augustinian convent in Valencia.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Biography from the Biographical Dictionary of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
^ 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.