- Jaime Serra I Cau
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Jaime Serra I Cau [Santiago de Serra y Cau, Giacomo Serra, Jacques de Serra, Cardinal Alborense, Cardinal Arborea.] (died 1517) was a Spanish Cardinal, a Catalan from Valencia. He was tutor to the young Giovanni Borgia [Michael Mallett (1969), "The Borgias", p. 118.] , and a close associate of his father
Pope Alexander VI [Mallett, p. 164, 201.] .He was
archbishop of Oristano in 1492, and was created Cardinal in 1500. He wasbishop of Linköping in 1501,bishop of Elne in 1506. He wasbishop of Albano in 1511, and possiblybishop of Palestrina in 1516 (sources disagree).He was Governor of Rome, and Governor of Cesena [Mallett, p. 191.]
He was buried in
San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli , where a mortuary chapel was built for him.Notes
External links
* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1500-ii.htm Biography]
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