Can you help with this week's collaboration on Lucrezia Borgia? [closed]

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The Collaborative Profile of the Week is Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519).
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Borgia-5

Can you help improve her genealogy, biography, or sources?

There's lots to be done. There's almost no biographical info at all, and just one source.

The profile for her father, Pope Alexander VI, has an extensive biography but sources aren't noted.

What can you do to help with her or her family? Ideas?

Post an answer if you're going to research something or contribute something. Comment when others post. This will keep the discussion going and at the top of G2G feeds, and it will keep people from duplicating efforts. Be sure to vote up posts too, to thank contributors for helping.

Thanks!

WikiTree profile: Lucrezia Borgia
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in Requests for Project Volunteers by Chris Whitten G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
closed by Darlene Athey-Hill
I think all three of her husbands have slightly incorrect names (Giovanni Sforza d'Aragona, should de just Sforza; Alfonso of Aragon, should be Aragona (Italian not English) and according to European Aristocrats naming standards Alfonso d'Este should have Este for his LNAB, not d'Este)

I've made some investigations to see if I or another leader can adopt those and make the changes and will let you know once I hear.

This Italian site has quite a few genealogies, though it doesn't site any sources and you can only access some of the genealogies for free.  I couldn't see the Borgia, but it does have Sforza and Aragona.

http://www.genmarenostrum.com/notizie.html
When looking at the wikis on the husbands, I noticed the order was a bit incorrect - this was fixed. Alfonse d'Este is now the 3rd husband and the dates have been updated appropriately. I have also added some wiki sources to the husbands to make it easier to source the dates.
Thanks everyone who helped with Lucrezia! Here's this week's collaboration: http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/128452/improve-profile-langston-hughes-weeks-collaborative-profile

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Lucrezia Borgia is one of my favorite historical figures. I don't know what I'll do to help yet but I'll come up with something!
by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
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As for all past collaborative profiles of the week, I am willing to enhance any graphic files  - source documents or pictures - that are used ... that is, if any are going to be used, after the latest issue raised on that topic.

Since I am not pre-1700 certified, please email me the graphic files, which I will email back to the sender for upload when I'm done with them.  Send me a private message and I'll send you my email address.
by Gaile Connolly G2G Astronaut (1.2m points)
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I added some sources so someone can start the narrative
by Terry Wright G2G6 Pilot (190k points)
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I've been researching her mother who was a long term mistress to Alexander VI and her first name is Vannozza (sometimes Vanozza) but I'm still trying to definitely identify her LNAB and CLN.

She is usually referred to as Vannozza Cattanei but I have seen other variations including Catanei, de Cattanei, de Cataneis, and de Cattaneis (this last one is apparently how she signed her name, or had it signed for her).  This is from a book I own, The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of women, power and intrigue in the Italian Renaissance 1427-1527, by Leonie Frieda, published London, 2012.

The book also states that Vannozza was married several times (without naming the husbands unfortunately) and she was probably the daughter of Jaicoppo Pincturis, of Mantua., and Charles Cawley in the Medieval Lands website, that Terry has linked to, calls him Giacopo Pinctoris.  However this could be just a nickname because it means painter (I think) designating his trade, rather than being a surname

So it's possible, but not totally clear, that Pincturis or Pinctoris could be her LNAB and perhaps Cattanei or de Cattaneis was the name of one of her husbands' and should be her CLN?

Before starting her profile, it would be good to see if we can find anymore information that would clarify these names.

John

by John Atkinson G2G6 Pilot (618k points)
+5 votes
I just connected Lucretia to AJ. Well actually, I just reran the connection finder, to discover she's connected.
by Anne B G2G Astronaut (1.3m points)
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It is part of my mission as I`m a descendant.

Very new on this platform.

I can help with the names if conversion to Italian need to made or help to improve accuracy
by Roberto Molinari G2G1 (2.0k points)
Ciao, Roberto! Please notice that this was a project from 2015-2016, no longer running. But I'm sure you can still improve Lucrezia's profile!

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