Alessandro Borgia

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Alessandro Borgia, governor (lieutenant) of the Order of Malta

Fra ' Alessandro Ponziano Borgia (* thirtieth October 1783 in Velletri , Papal States ; † 13. January 1872 in Rome ) was an Italian nobleman and knight of the first level of the Sovereign Order of Malta . He worked from 1865 to 1872 as head of the order (governor of the grand master).

biography

He came from the famous, originally Spanish noble family of the Borgia , which the infamous Pope Alexander VI. but also brought forth St. Francis of Borgia . Cardinal Stefano Borgia (1731–1804) came from the same city as he and was his uncle; Alessandro Borgia (1682–1764), Archbishop of Fermo , chronicler of the city of Velletri, his great-uncle.

Borgia entered the Order of Malta on February 18, 1797 and made his profession in 1802. In 1818 he lived in the Coming Catania , which was then the headquarters of the order. With the leadership of the order he moved to Ferrara in 1824 and to Rome in 1834. During these years of constant change he was responsible for a. the maintenance of the order archive. Most recently he was Commander of Sassoferrato .

On February 27, 1865, Alessandro Borgia was elected almost unanimously as the successor to Philipp von Colloredo-Mels, who died the previous year, as governor (lieutenant) of the general order, in place of the grand master who had not existed for decades . He had the rank of Grand Cross Bailli. The German War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 fell during his reign , but also the battles for the conquest of Rome by Italian troops (1870), in which the order stood out in caring for the wounded. In addition, the Maltese officially returned to the Holy Land for the first time in centuries on June 18, 1871 .

Alessandro Borgia died on January 13, 1872 in the Palazzo Magistrale in Rome.

His brothers Cesare (1776-1837) and Camillo (1773-1817) were knights of the Order of Malta.

Borgia's successor as head of the order was Johann Baptist Ceschi a Santa Croce (1827–1905); first also as governor, then from 1879 as grand master, after Pope Leo XIII. with the bull Inclytum antiquitate originis of March 28, 1879 this dignity had been restored.

literature

  • Francesco Giuseppe Terrinoni: Memorie storiche della resa di Malta ai francesi nel 1798. Tip. delle Belle Arti, Rome 1867.
  • Francesco Bonazzi: Elenco dei cavalieri del SMordine di S. Giovanni di Gerusalemme. Detken & Rocholi, Naples 1907, p. 23 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sovrano Militare Ordine ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta: Ruolo generale. Rom 1872, p. 9 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Gerald Stourzh: Austrian presence in the Holy Land in the 19th and early 20th century. Proceedings of the symposium in the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem on March 1-2, 1995. Austrian Embassy, ​​Tel Aviv 1996, p. 103 and p. 118 ( detail scan ).
  3. ^ Berthold Waldstein-Wartenberg: Legal history of the Order of Malta. Herold, Vienna / Munich 1969, p. 209 ( detail scan ).
  4. ↑ Ernst Staehle: Knights of Malta. (= History of the Johanniter and Maltese . Volume 3). Weishaupt, Gnas 2002, ISBN 3-7059-0156-7 , p. 206, ( detail scan ).
  5. ^ Birgit Strimitzer: The Sovereign Maltese Knight Order in Austria. Leykam, Graz 1999, ISBN 3-7011-7407-5 , p. 178 ( detail scan ).
  6. ^ Francesco Bonazzi: Elenco dei cavalieri del SMordine di S. Giovanni di Gerusalemme. Detken & Rocholi, Naples 1907, p. 23 f. ( online ).
  7. ^ Daniela Novarese: Accademie e scuole: istituzioni, luoghi, personaggi, immagini della cultura e del potere. Giuffrè, Milan 2011, ISBN 8-814-17191-2 , p. 475 f. ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Borgia, Alessandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borgia, Alessandro Ponziano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Profess-Grand Cross-Bailli of the Sovereign Order of Malta, head of the order as governor of the grand master
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Velletri , Papal States
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1872
Place of death Rome