Lucrezia had been speculated to have consummated…
December 1498 CE
Lucrezia had been speculated to have consummated a relationship with someone, perhaps Alexander's chamberlain Pedro Calderon, also called Perotto, during the prolonged process of the annulment.
In any case, families hostile to the Borgias will later accuse her of being pregnant at the time her marriage was annulled for non-consummation.
She is known to have retired to the convent of San Sisto in June 1497 to await the outcome of the annulment proceedings, which are finalized in December of that year.
The bodies of Pedro Calderon, and a maid, Pantasilea, are found in the Tiber in February 1498.
The Ferrarese ambassador claims in March 1498 that Lucrezia had given birth, but this is denied by other sources.
A child is born, however, in the Borgia household the year before Lucrezia's marriage to Alfonso of Aragon.
He is named Giovanni but is known to historians as the "Infans Romanus".
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