Angelo Capranica

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Coat of arms of Cardinal Angelo Capranica.

Angelo Capranica (c. 1415 -1478) (called the Cardinal of Santa Croce or the Cardinal of Rieti) was an

cardinal
.

Biography

Angelo

Eugene IV until much later.[1]

Angelo was elected

Nicholas V on 4 May 1447, and then to the see of Rieti on 25 September 1450.[1] Angelo also served as governor of Cesena and of Foligno. Shortly after his brother's death in August 1458, Pope Pius II named him governor of Bologna in September 1458.[1] Domenico, shortly before his death, had founded a seminary in his palace, the Almo Collegio Capranica; the younger Capranica expanded the palace and opened it to students in 1460.[1]

In the

cardinal priest. Capranica entered Siena on 21 March 1460, receiving the red hat later that day. On 26 March 1460 he received the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
, his brother's former title.

In April 1460, Angelo was appointed

papal court in Siena on 24 March 1464.[1]

Angelo participated in the

papal conclave of 1464 that elected Pope Paul II.[1] The new pope renewed Capranica's appointment as legate a latere on 1 October 1464, and he left for Bologna on 12 January 1465.[1] He returned to Rome on 27 November, then on 6 May 1466 left again for Bologna, returning to Rome on 10 January 1468.[1]

On 9 January 1469 Cardinal Capricana and Cardinal Roderic Llançol i de Borja accompanied Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, from Rome to Viterbo.[1]

Angelo participated in the

papal conclave of 1471 that elected Pope Sixtus IV.[1] On 23 November 1471 the new pope named him papal legate to the Italian princes for the purposes of a new crusade against the Ottoman Turks.[1]

On 11 December 1472 Angelo became a

Vallombrosan monastery of San Pancrazio in Florence and of the Vallombrosan monastery of San Basilio di Cavata in the diocese of Parma, as well as of the Benedictine monasteries of San Bartolomeo in Ferrara, Santa Sofia in Benevento and San Giovanni degli Eremiti in Palermo
.

Angelo became Archbishop of Fermo, his brother's former see, on 9 April 1473.[1] He celebrated a synod there, but soon fell ill and returned to Rome on 17 November 1473, resigning the archbishopric on 17 June 1474.[1]

Capranica died in Rome on 3 July 1478.[1] He is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in the same chapel as his brother.[1]

References

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    OCLC 53276621
    .

Further reading

  • Cardella, Lorenzo (1793). Memorie storiche de' cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa (in Italian). Vol. III. Rome: Stamperia Pagliarini. pp. 136–137.
  • Moroni, Gaetano (1841). "CAPRANICA Angelo, Cardinale". Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica (in Italian). Vol. IX. Venezia: Tipografia Emiliana. pp. 213–4.
  • Chacón, Alfonso, Vitæ, et res gestæ Pontificvm Romanorum et S. R. E. Cardinalivm ab initio nascentis Ecclesiæ vsque ad Vrbanvm VIII. Pont. Max. 2 volumes, Romae: Typis Vaticanis, 1677, vol. 2, col. 1035 and 1272.
  • Eubel, Conradus, and Guglielmus van Gulik, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 2 (1431-1503), Münich: Sumptibus et typis Librariae Regensbergianae, 1914; reprint, Padua: Il Messagero di S. Antonio, 1960, pp. 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 60, 62, 6, 154, 221, and 238.