Editing Lucrezia Borgia (section)

==Children==
Lucrezia was mother to seven or eight known children:
# A miscarriage / stillborn daughter (16 February 1499);<ref>[[Johann Burchard|Johannes Burchard]] ''Pope Alexander VI and his court; extracts from the Latin diary of Johannes Burchardus'', New York, F. L. Brown, 1921 p. 105</ref>
# [[Rodrigo of Aragon]] (1 November 1499 – August 1512), son by Alfonso of Aragon;<ref>[[Johann Burchard|Johannes Burchard]] ''Pope Alexander VI and his court; extracts from the Latin diary of Johannes Burchardus'', New York, F. L. Brown, 1921 p. 110</ref>
# A stillborn daughter (1502), first child by d'Este;
# Alessandro d'Este (1505–1505);
# [[Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]] (5 April 1508 – 3 October 1559);
# [[Ippolito II d'Este]] (25 August 1509 – 1 December 1572). [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan|Archbishop of Milan]] and later Cardinal;
# Alessandro d'Este (1514–1516);
# [[Eleonora d'Este (1515–1575)|Leonora d'Este]] (3 July 1515 – 15 July 1575), a nun and composer;
# [[Francesco d'Este (1516–1578)|Francesco d'Este]], Marquess of Massalombarda (1 November 1516 – 2 February 1578);
# Isabella Maria d'Este (born and died on 14 June 1519).<ref>{{cite book|title=Lucrezia Borgia |first=Ferdinand |last=Gregorovius |author-link=Ferdinand Gregorovius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f4IvCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 |isbn=9783954554195 |page=292|date=14 August 2012 |publisher=dearbooks. in Europäischer Literaturverlag GmbH }}</ref> Complications at birth caused the death of Lucrezia ten days later.

[[Giovanni Borgia (1498)|Giovanni Borgia]], "''infans Romanus''" ("Child of Rome," c. 1498–1548) had his paternity acknowledged by Alexander and Cesare, in two Papal bulls, but it was rumoured that he was the child of Lucrezia and Pedro Calderon. The child (identified, in later life, as Lucrezia's half-brother) was most likely the result of a liaison between [[Pope Alexander VI|Rodrigo Borgia]] (Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia's father) and an unknown mistress and was not Lucrezia's child.<ref>Sarah Bradford: ''Lucrezia Borgia'', Penguin Group, 2004, p. 68 and 114</ref>

The Italian historian [[Maria Bellonci]] claims that Lucrezia gave birth to three children who did not survive infancy, one by Alfonso of Aragon and two by Alfonso d'Este. She is also thought to have had at least four miscarriages.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy|last=Bradford|first=Sarah|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2005}}</ref>