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Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois.
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Late 15th-century Italian nobleman and Catholic cardinal
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Bishop of Rome from 1492 to 1503
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Senior church official
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King of France from 1498 to 1515
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Title of nobility originally within French peerage
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