Alfonso Carafa
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Alfonso Carafa (16 July 1540 – 29 August 1565) was a member of one of the oldest noble families of
Roman Catholic Church. His father was Antonio, Marquis of Montebello, whose uncle, Gian Pietro Carafa, ascended the papal throne in 1555 as Pope Paul IV.[1]
Biography
Alfonso entered the
Cardinal Nephew
for the last few months of Paul's pontificate.
In June 1560 he was arrested on the instructions of the new pope
Pius IV and along with his two uncles was imprisoned in the Castel Sant'Angelo
on charges of corruption and the theft of papal property. However, receiving considerably more sympathy than his despised uncles, Alfonso was spared the execution that was their fate. In April 1561 he was released and in 1562 returned to his archdiocese.
He died of a fever on 29 August 1565 aged only twenty-five years.
References
- The Papacy And The Levant, Kenneth Meyer Setton, American Philosophical Society, 1984
- OCLC 53276621.
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