Pope UrbanVIII (r. 1623–1644) created seventy-four new cardinals in eight consistories. Francesco Barberini, nephew of the Pope – cardinal-deacon of S...
Pope UrbanVIII (Latin: Urbanus VIII; Italian: Urbano VIII; baptised 5 April 1568 – 29 July 1644), born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic...
spared. To deal with the problem of the cardinals left to him by his predecessors, Boniface created new cardinals on five occasions during his reign. In...
History portal Catholicism portal Italy portal List of popes CardinalscreatedbyUrban III Duffy, Eamon (2001). Saints & sinners: A History of the Popes...
1187, the day after the death of Urban III, Alberto di Morra, at that time Protopriest of the College of Cardinals, was elected pope (after Henry of...
1st. Prague: Knights of the Cross with the Red Star. p. 68. "CardinalsCreatedbyUrbanVIII". GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2023-10-19. Šmied, Miroslav; Záruba...
1644. He was createdCardinal in pectore in 1627 and published in 1629. The 1644 conclave for the election of a successor to Pope UrbanVIII was long and...
people of Viterbo. Since Pope Adrian had created no new cardinals, the number of cardinals was twelve; Cardinal Simon de Brion was still in France, serving...
X, who reigned from 1644–1655. Like the reign of his predecessor Pope UrbanVIII (of the equally papal Barberini family), Innocent X's rule was littered...
September 1623 he was appointed datary of His Holiness. Pope UrbanVIIIcreated him cardinal priest in the consistory of 19 January 1626. He opted for the...
UrbanVIII and a supporter of France, he played a significant role at a number of the papal conclaves of the 17th century. With his brothers Cardinal...
Michelangelo of his age,' later repeating that prophecy to Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (the future Pope UrbanVIII), as Domenico Bernini reports in his biography of...
elected to the papacy as Clement VII (French: Clément VII) by the cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France...
Fondi, thirteen cardinals elected Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII on 20 September 1378. The cardinals argued that the election of Urban VI was invalid...
Barberini Pope UrbanVIII (the uncle of his brother-in-law Taddeo) at the insistence of his sister, Anna. After the death of Pope Urban, he participated...
feared that the cardinals would elect a French pope and return the papacy to Avignon. Consequently, they rioted and laid siege to the cardinals, insisting...
whom were cardinals and nephews of the previous Pope UrbanVIII) had started referring to him as Your Eminence; a title reserved for cardinals, suggesting...
civil law. At the age of 20 he became an official of the court of Pope UrbanVIII. Pignatelli was the Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura and served...
when he became papal legate in Bologna. He was made a cardinal 19 January 1626 by Pope UrbanVIII. When the plague epidemic hit Bologna in 1630/1631, he...
numbering. Many antipopes createdcardinals, known as quasi-cardinals, and a few createdcardinal-nephews, known as quasi-cardinal-nephews. Antipopes still...
(1577 – 12 July 1635) was a Catholic theologian and cardinal. As personal theologian of Pope UrbanVIII, he was involved in the Galileo affair. Agostino...