Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós (1524–1537) was a Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal.
Biography
A member of the House of Borgia, Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós was born in Gandía in 1524, the son of Juan de Borja y Enríquez de Luna, 3rd Duke of Gandía, and his second wife Francisca de Castro y de Pinós.[1] He was the half-brother on his father's side of Saint Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía and of Enrique de Borja y Aragón. He was the great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.[1]
He inherited the barony of Navarrés by cessation of his father on 8 June 1530.[1] He joined the Order of Santiago in 1533.[1]
At a very young age, Pope Paul III created him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of 22 December 1536.[1] He received the deaconry of San Nicola in Carcere on 15 January 1537.[1] He died almost immediately after Francisco Juan Roca, dean of the collegiate church of Gandía arrived with the red hat.[1]
He died in the ducal palace of Gandía on 6 August 1537.[1]