Alexander VI
1431 – 1503
Spanish

Pope, member of the Borgia family. He secured the papacy through bribery, tried to enrich his family through means most foul, and began the banning of books.

Contemporaries
1432–1519Leonardo da Vinci
1484–1531Huldrych Zwingli
1420–1498Tomás de Torquemada
1452–1485Richard III
1478–1535Sir Thomas More
1492–1549Margaret of Angouleme
?–1471Sir Thomas Malory
1491–1556St. Ignatius of Loyola
1379–1471Thomas Kempis
1412–1431St. Joan of Arc
1466–1536Desiderius Erasmus
1490–1546Sir Thomas Elyot