1268–1271 papal election
Papal election 1268–71 | |
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Dates and location | |
November 1268 – 1 September 1271 Palazzo dei Papi di Viterbo | |
Key officials | |
Dean | Odo of Châteauroux |
Protopriest | Simone Paltanieri |
Protodeacon | Riccardo Annibaldi |
Election | |
Ballots | not less than 137 |
Elected pope | |
Teobaldo Visconti Name taken: Gregory X | |
The 1268–71 papal election (from November 1268 to 1 September 1271), following the death of
As a result of the length of the election, during which three of the twenty cardinal-electors died and one resigned, Gregory X promulgated the papal bull Ubi periculum on 7 July 1274, during the Second Council of Lyon, establishing the papal conclave, whose rules were based on the tactics employed against the cardinals in Viterbo. The first election held under those rules is sometimes viewed as the first conclave.[4]
Cardinal electors
The dynamic of the conclave was divided between the
At the death of Clement IV there were twenty cardinals in the Sacred College.[10] One cardinal (Rodolphe of Albano) was absent throughout and died during the vacancy.[11] The other nineteen cardinals participated in the election in 1269,[7] but two died before the cardinals settled on a new pope.[6][12]
Elector | Nationality[13] | Order and title[6] | Elevated[14] | Elevator | Notes |
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Odo of Châteauroux | French | Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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28 May 1244 | Innocent IV | Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
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István Báncsa †
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Hungarian | Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
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December 1251 | Innocent IV | Died on 9 July 1270,[15] first Hungarian cardinal[16] |
John of Toledo, O.Cist. | English | Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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28 May 1244 | Innocent IV | |
Henry of Segusio | Piedmontese (from Susa) | Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia and Velletri
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May 1262 | Urban IV | Departed on 8 June 1270, later returned[17] |
Simone Paltanieri (or Paltinieri, or Paltineri) |
Paduan | Cardinal-priest of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti | 17 December 1261 | Urban IV | Committee member;[6] Cardinal primoprete |
Simon Monpitie de Brie | French | Cardinal-priest of S. Cecilia | 17 December 1261 | Urban IV | Future Pope Martin IV |
Anchero Pantaleone
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French | Cardinal-priest of S. Prassede | May 1262 | Urban IV | Cardinal-nephew |
Guillaume de Bray | French | Cardinal-priest of S. Marco | May 1262 | Urban IV | |
Guy de Bourgogne, O.Cist. | Burgundian or Castilian | Cardinal-priest of S. Lorenzo in Lucina | May 1262 | Urban IV | Committee member[6] |
Annibale Annibaldi , O.P.
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Roman | Cardinal-priest of Ss. XII Apostoli | May 1262 | Urban IV | Treated with Charles I of Naples[18]
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Riccardo Annibaldi | Roman | Cardinal-deacon of S. Angelo in Pescheria | 1238[19] | Gregory IX | Committee member[6] Nephew of Pope Alexander IV; Protodeacon |
Ottaviano Ubaldini | Florentine | Cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Via Lata | 28 May 1244 | Innocent IV | Committee member[6] |
Giovanni Gaetano Orsini | Roman | Cardinal-deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere | 28 May 1244 | Innocent IV | Committee member[6] Future Pope Nicholas III |
Ottobono Fieschi dei Conti di Lavagna | Genoese | Cardinal-deacon of S. Adriano | December 1251 | Innocent IV | Future Pope Adrian V, Cardinal-nephew |
Uberto Coconati | Piedmontese (from Asti) | Cardinal-deacon of S. Eustachio | 17 December 1261 | Urban IV | |
Giacomo Savelli | Roman | Cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Cosmedin | 17 December 1261 | Urban IV | Committee member[6] Future Pope Honorius IV |
Goffredo da Alatri | Alatri | Cardinal-deacon of S. Giorgio in Velabro | 17 December 1261 | Urban IV | |
Giordano dei Conti Pironti da Terracina† | Terracina | Cardinal-deacon of Ss. Cosma e Damiano | May 1262 | Urban IV | Died in October 1269, Vice-chancellor |
Matteo Rosso Orsini | Roman | Cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Portico | May 1262 | Urban IV | Nephew of Pope Nicholas III |
† denotes a cardinal elector who died during the election.
Absent cardinals
Elector | Nationality | Order and title | Elevated | Elevator | Notes |
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Rodolphe de Chevrières † (Raoul Grosparmi) | French | Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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17 December 1261 | Urban IV | He accompanied king Louis IX of France in his crusade in Tunisia and died there on 11 August 1270.[20] |
Parties in the College of Cardinals
Country | Number of Electors |
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Rome | 5 |
France† | 5 |
Piedmont | 2 |
England, Florence, Genoa, Hungary†, Alatri, Padua, Terracina†, Burgundy or Castilia | 1 |
† one cardinal died before final scrutiny |
According to contemporary accounts in the Annales Piacentines the College of Cardinals was divided into adherents of Charles d'Anjou (pars Caroli) and the Imperial party (pars Imperii), but the exact reconstruction of these parties is very difficult.[21] It is almost certain that this account is inaccurate when it claims that pars Caroli had six (or seven, in another place in that account) members, including Giovanni Gaetano Orsini and Ottobono Fieschi, while pars Imperii had eleven (or ten) members, Riccardo Annibaldi, Ottaviano Ubaldini and Uberto Coconati among them.[22] Certainly five cardinals, namely Ottobono Fieschi, Guillame de Bray, Anchero Pantaleone, Simon Monpitie de Brie and Odo of Châteauroux belonged to the Angevin faction.[23] But if Giovanni Gaetano Orsini was really one of their leaders, then his relatives Matteo Orsini Rosso and Giacomo Savelli should also be added here, and since Henry of Segusio is also likely to have belonged to this faction, its true size would have amounted to nine cardinals.[23] The imperial party, on the contrary, could not have had more than ten members, including two who had died during the sede vacante.[24]
According to Sternfeld[25] it is possible to identify not only two, but as many as four parties in the Sacred College, of which two were pars Caroli and pars Imperii in the strict sense, while the remaining two represented the factions inside the Roman aristocracy:
- Angevin party (pars Caroli), that included Ottobono Fieschi, Guillame de Bray, Anchero Pantaleone, Simon Monpitie de Brie, probably Odo of Châteauroux and possibly Henry of Segusio, though the last two certainly represented moderate attitude
- Ghibeline party (pars Imperii), that included John of Toledo, Simone Paltinieri, Ottaviano Ubaldini, Uberto Coconati, and probably also Guy de Castella and two cardinals who had died in the election (Giordano Pironti and István Báncsa)
- Orsini faction - party of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, which included Matteo Orsini Rosso and Giacomo Savelli
- Annibaldi faction - party of Cardinal Riccardo Annibaldi, which included also his relatives Annibale Annibaldi and Goffredo da Alatri
Nevertheless, it seems that these four parties actually formed two blocs in the election: Annibaldi joined pars Imperii, while Orsini aligned himself with pars Caroli.[26]
Procedure
The cardinals began the election by meeting and voting once a day in the Episcopal Palace in Viterbo, before returning to their respective residences; tradition dictated that the election should take place in the city where the previous pope died, if the late pontiff had died outside Rome. There is little reliable data about the candidates proposed during almost three years of deliberations; certainly cardinals Odo of Châteauroux, John of Toledo, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Ottaviano Ubaldini, Riccardo Annibadi and Ottobono Fieschi were counted among the
In late 1269, after several months of deadlock during which the cardinals had met only intermittently,
According to the account of
The Committee
Under pressure from Philip III of France and other rulers, on 1 September 1271, the cardinals agreed to cede their authority to a committee of six. The committee included two cardinals of the faction of Orsini (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini and Giacomo Savelli), three Ghibelines (Simone Paltinieri, Ottaviano Ubaldini and Guy de Castella) and Cardinal Riccardo Annibaldi, while Angevin cardinals seem to have been entirely marginalized.[34]
The committee chose an Italian from Piacenza, Teobaldo Visconti, a non-cardinal, who was then in
Legacy
The techniques employed against the dilatory cardinals in Viterbo formed the basis for the
Designed both to accelerate future elections and reduce outside interference, the rules of Ubi periculum provide for the cardinal electors to be secluded for the entirety of the conclave, including having their meals passed through a small opening, and for their rations to be reduced to a single meal at the end of three days, or bread and water (with a little wine) after eight days.[33] Cardinals also do not collect from the Apostolic Camera any payments they might otherwise receive during the conclave.[30]
The stringent rules of Ubi periculum were used in the conclaves that elected Pope Innocent V (January 1276) and Pope Adrian V (July 1276), lasting one and nine days respectively.[6] However, at the urgings of the College, the newly elected Adrian V suspended those rules on 12 July 1276—indicating that he wished to revise it—and died on 18 August without having promulgated a revised version.[6]
Therefore, the election of
References
- ^ a b Wright, David (18 April 2005). "Inside Longest Papal Conclave in History". ABC News. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ McWhirter, Norris. 1983. Guinness Book of World Records. Bantam Books. p. 464.
- ^ Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. 1876. The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are. Chapman and Hall. p. 54.
- ^ ISBN 0-415-92228-3. p. 392.
- ^ a b c d e Bower, Archibald. 1766. The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the Present Time. p. 283-284.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Papal elections and conclaves of the 13th Century (1216-1294)."
- ^ ISBN 0-312-29463-8. p. 41.
- ^ Trollope, 1876, p. 59.
- ^ Trollope, 1876, p. 60.
- ^ R. Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III) 1244-1277 (Berlin 1905), p. 156; John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71; K. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi (1913) p. 8; cfr. Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Papal elections and conclaves of the 13th Century (1216-1294)." Bernard Ayglerius, O.S.B., abbot of Monte Cassino, allegedly the only cardinal created by Clement IV, has been excluded from the list of the cardinals because there is no documentary proof of his cardinalate, see Eubel, p. 8 and John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71; Sternfed does not mention Bernard at all and at p.200 says that there was no creation of new cardinals between 1262 and 1273.
- ^ R. Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III) 1244-1277 (Berlin 1905), p. 156; John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71
- ^ R. Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III) 1244-1277 (Berlin 1905), p. 156
- ^ R. Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaetan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III) 1244-1277 (Berlin 1905), p. 156-171
- ^ Dates of promotions according to Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, (1913), I, p. 7-8.
- ^ This is according to S. Miranda [1], and K. Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, 1913, vol. I, p. 7. John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71 denies Vancza's death in 1270, indicating that he still subscribed a letter dated 22 August 1270 and therefore, if he died on 9 July, it had to be in 1271. Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino. Cardinali di curia e "familiae" cardinalizie dal 1227 al 1254. 2 vols. Padova, Antenore, 1972. (Italia sacra, 18-19), I, p. 352 says that he died on 9 or 10 July 1270, and adds (p. 349 note 2) that on 1 September 1271 he is referred to as a dead person. The discrapencies between the recorded date of death and the date of the last subscription of Cardinal Vancsa given in Adams are possibly clarified by Ambrogio Piazzoni, Historia wyboru papieży, Kraków 2003, p. 194, which says that this letter was issued on 22 June 1270 (not 22 August).
- ^ Levillain, 2002, p. 451.
- ^ John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ Date according to Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Cardinali di curia e "familiae" cardinalizie dal1227 al 1254. 2 vols. Padova : Antenore, 1972. (Italia sacra, 18-19), I, p. 128
- ^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: Raoul Grosparmi
- ^ Sternfeld, p. 156 ff. and p. 317-321
- ^ Sternfeld, p. 317.
- ^ a b Sternfeld, p. 317-318.
- ^ Sternfeld, p. 318
- ^ p. 156-181, 317-321
- ^ Cfr. Sternfeld, p. 164, 169-170.
- ^ Sternfeld, p. 157-160, 170-171
- ^ John Paul Adams Sede Vacante 1268-71 and Ambrogio Piazzoni, Histora wyboru papieży, Kraków 2003, p. 194.
- ^ The Quarterly Review. 1896. p. 511-512.
- ^ ISBN 0-8091-4019-5. p. 61.
- ^ Trollope, 1876, p. 61.
- ^ Bidwell, Walter Hilliard, and Agnew, John Holmes. Eds. 1876. Eclectic Magazine. p. 476.
- ^ a b c d Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, and Bourne, Francis. 1907. The Secrets of the Vatican. Hurst and Blackett Limited. p. 48-50.
- ^ Sternfeld, p. 180-181
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