Additionally, Johann Burchard, the Conclave's Master of Ceremonies and was a leading figure under Pope Alexander VI's reign, furthers the proof of Rodrigo's simony by saying that the 1492 conclave was a particularly expensive campaign. (Burchard, 53) Even though Burchard does not go out and directly say that Rodrigo paid off the Conclave so that they would vote for him, when he says "a particularly expensive campaign " you know that the people running for Pope really didn't do much campaigning and when they did it was only in front of the Conclave to try to get their votes. This meant that Rodrigo's campaign was expensive because he spent a lot of money just to pay off the conclave and get them to vote for him. This also shows how Rodrigo used simony to get the positions that he wanted and showed that in the future would even support other people's use of simony. Even though many Popes like Pope Innocent IX and other several popes previous to him had publically condemned simony. In addition to Alexander's approval of simony, Pope Alexander VI also approved the use of indulgences, the removal of sin by payment. Now as Pope Alexander VI was approving the sale of indulgences and allowing the sale of church positions, he promoted his son, Cesare Borgia, to the position of Archbishop of Valencia even though Cesare was only seventeen and like his father was not a very active Catholic. (Brooklyn Museum, Pope Alexander VI) The Pope would then go on to have eleven children, some of which were never identified with several different women none of which were his wife, so even if Pope Alexander VI wasn't a priest or a Pope this would still be considered huge sin for many Catholics. Pope Alexander VI would even go on to create several controversial papal bulls, like the Inter Caetera, which was a precursor to the treaty of Tordesillas, "granted all land to the west and south of a pole line 100 leagues west and south of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands to the Spanish ".
