1585 papal conclave
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Papal conclave April 1585 | |
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Dates and location | |
21–24 April 1585 Apostolic Palace, Papal States | |
Key officials | |
Dean | Alessandro Farnese |
Camerlengo | Filippo Guastavillani |
Elected pope | |
Felice Peretti di Montalto Name taken: Sixtus V | |
The 1585 papal conclave (21–24 April), convoked after the death of
Proceedings
The conclave began in the
Early voting seemed to favour Cardinals Pier Donato Cesi and Guglielmo Sirleto, but by the next morning they had been abandoned. Wanting to avoid the potential influence of cardinals who had not yet arrived, Medici then proposed two names to D' Este: those of Cardinals Albani and Montalto, and invited him to choose. D' Este imposed conditions, however, and the projected deal, when news got out, caused much indignation. Through a series of misdirections and stratagems, Medici convinced the cardinals that Montalto was not his candidate.
On 24 April Medici explained to Montalto all that had been done, and advised him as to how affairs should be conducted. D'Este met with Farnese, who believed that Montalto had no voting strength, and managed to further misdirect him. During a meeting in the Pauline Chapel, d' Este recruited Guastavillani, the Cardinal Camerlengo; Giambattista Castagna, the Cardinal of San Marcello; and Francesco Sforza. When the cardinals finally assembled in the Sistine Chapel, d' Este declared that it was not necessary to proceed to a ballot, since it was obvious who the new pope was. Without opposition the cardinals proceeded to do homage ('adoration') to Felice Cardinal Peretti though, immediately afterwards, a vote was conducted by asking each cardinal to cast his vote aloud. The vote was unanimous. Cardinal François de Joyeuse arrived in Rome too late to participate in the Conclave.
The coronation of Sixtus V took place on May 1. As senior cardinal deacon Cardinal de' Medici placed the tiara on his head. On May 5, he took possession of the Lateran.
Composition of the conclave
Participants
- Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
- Bishop of Portoand Santa Rufina
- Bishop of Frascati
- Bishop of Albano
- Bishop of Palestrina
- Girolamo Simoncelli
- Bishop of Constance
- Archbishop of Auch
- Ludovico Madruzzo
- Innico d'Avalos d'Aragona
- Ferdinando de' Medici
- Marco Antonio Colonna
- Tolomeo Gallio
- Prospero Santacroce
- Guido Luca Ferrero
- Guglielmo Sirleto
- Archbishop of Bologna
- Michele Bonelli
- Antonio Carafa
- Giulio Antonio Santorio
- Pier Donato Cesi
- Bishop of Le Mans
- Felice Peretti Montalto OFM (elected as Pope Sixtus V)
- Girolamo Rusticucci
- Archbishop of Sens
- Gian Girolamo Albani
- Filippo Boncompagni
- Filippo Guastavillani, Camerlengo
- Andrea d'Austria, Bishop of Brixen
- Alessandro Riario, Titular Patriarch of Alexandria
- Pedro de Deza
- Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga
- Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce, Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Giambattista Castagna, Papal Legate to Bologna
- Archbishop of Florence
- Bishop of Adria
- Bishop of Cremona
- Antonmaria Salviati
- Bishop of Nola
- Matthieu Cointerel,
- Scipione Lancelotti
- Francesco Sforza
Absent cardinals
The following cardinals did not attend the conclave:
- Niccolò Caetani.
- archbishop of Toulouse, France.
- archbishop of Rouen, France.
- archbishop of Besançon, France, and bishop of Sabina.
- Albrecht von Austria.
- archbishop of Reims, France.
- Charles II de Lorraine de Vaudémont, administrator of Toul, and Verdun, France.
- archbishop of Toledo, Spain.
- archbishop of Seville, Spain.
- archbishop of Narbonne, France.
- bishop of Ceneda.
- bishop of Verona.
- bishop of Mondovi.
- Bishop of Massa Marittima.
- bishop of Wilno, Lithuania.
- Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragonia.
- Charles III de Bourbon de Vendôme, coadjutor archbishop of Rouen, France.
- bishop of Ermland, Prussia.
References
Sources
- Ludwig von Pastor, History of the Popes vol. XIX, London 1930
- Giuseppe de Novaes, Elementi della storia de' sommi pontefici da San Pietro sino al ... Pio Papa VII; third edition, Volume 8 (Roma 1822) 103–106.
- L. Ranke, The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Volume I (tr. S. Austin) (Philadelphia 1841)
- Giovanni Leti, Vita di Sisto Quinto, pontefice romano Volume II (Torino 1852) 40–86