Juan Castellar y de Borja

Juan Castellar y de Borja (1441–1505) (called the Cardinal of Trani and the Cardinal of Monreale) was a Spanish Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Biography

Juan Castellar y de Borja was born in Valencia in late 1441, the son of Galcerán de Castellar, señor de Picassent and Alcàsser, and his wife Bernardona Borja. The Castellar family was allied with the Borja family. On 17 February 1502 he was one of six cardinals and six prelates who accompanied the pope on his trip to Piombino.

Pope Alexander VI made Castellar a cardinal priest in the consistory of 31 May 1503. He received the titular church of Santa Maria in Trastevere on 12 June 1503.

On 9 August 1503 he was transferred to the metropolitan see of Monreale. He occupied the post until his death.

He participated in both the papal conclave of September 1503 that elected Pope Pius III and the papal conclave of October 1503 that elected Pope Julius II.

On 7 July 1504 he left Rome to visit Ferdinand II of Aragon. He became ill in Valencia, and after several months, died on 1 January 1505 of a kidney ailment. He was buried in the Augustinian convent in Valencia.