A cardinal-nephew (Latin: cardinalis nepos; Italian: cardinale nipote; Spanish: valido de su tío; Portuguese: cardeal-sobrinho; French: prince de fortune)...

Montalto (Cardinal Nephew) (1587–1590) Paolo Emilio Sfondrati (Cardinal Nephew) (1591) Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce (Cardinal Nephew) (1591) Pierbenedetto...

Many antipopes created cardinals, known as quasi-cardinals, and a few created cardinal-nephews, known as quasi-cardinal-nephews. Antipopes still exist...

A cardinal-nephew is a cardinal elevated by a pope who was his uncle, or more generally, his relative. The practice of creating cardinal-nephews originated...

Camillo to the office of Cardinal-nephew. At the same time he redistributed some of the responsibilities of the office to the Cardinal Secretary of State,...

Benedetto Caetani (died 1296), cardinal, nephew of Boniface VIII Benedict of Porto e Santa Rufina (died 1216), cardinal, sometimes called Caetani Caetani...

local bishop. Cardinal-Infante (disambiguation) Cardinal-nephew Cardinal protector Hierarchy of the Catholic Church List of current cardinals List of the...

thereafter, on 31 January 1560, the pope created him cardinal, and thus Borromeo as cardinal-nephew was entrusted with both the public and the privy seal...

the nephew of Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte, Archbishop of Manfredonia (1506–1511). His uncle exchanged this see for a position as a Cardinal in 1511;...

cardinal. Following the wedding, which he officiated, he appointed his niece's uncle-in-law Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri to the office of cardinal nephew...

Francesco Colonna, Duke of Zagarolo for 280,000 scudi.[citation needed] As Cardinal Nephew (an official post until it was abolished in 1692), Borghese was placed...

secretary of state was always a cardinal, and Pope Innocent XII (1691–1700) abolished the office of cardinal nephew in 1692. Dandini was born in Cesena...

of Savoy was pushing for Cardinal Ferrero, who was only 28 years old. The nephews of Pius IV, Cardinal Borromeo and Cardinal Altemps, had another candidate...

carries Proserpina into. Cardinal Scipione Borghese commissioned the sculpture and gave it to the newly appointed Cardinal-nephew, Ludovico Ludovisi, possibly...

born Giovanni Gaetano Orsini Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (died 1335), cardinal-nephew of Pope Nicholas III This disambiguation page lists articles about...

Bishop of Rome Alessandro Farnese (cardinal) (1520–1589), Paul's grandson, Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal-nephew Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545–1592)...

created eleven cardinals in four consistories that saw him elevate his nephew Ludovico and his cousin Marcantonio Gozzadini as cardinals; he also elevated...

the lay-nephew of the Pope, but shortly afterwards Camillo Pamphili expressed his wish to become Cardinal-nephew. Camillo was created Cardinal Deacon in...

Catholic Church. This was due primarily to political infighting between the cardinals. The election of Teobaldo Visconti as Pope Gregory X was the first example...

II of Spain and the Habsburgs. The appointment of Carlo Carafa as Cardinal Nephew damaged the papacy further, and scandals forced Paul to remove him...

(1527), and subsequently, they became the residence of the Cardinal-nephew and then the Cardinal Secretary of State. Julius used his influence to reconcile...

Vitelli on the Quirinal hill and in 1601 donated the property to his Cardinal-nephew Pietro Aldobrandini. The old buildings of the Vitelli Family were demolished...

of the College of Cardinals had been radically transformed, increasing the number of cardinal-nephews (from 3 to 10), crown-cardinals (from 2 to 8), and...

Carlo Carafa (29 March 1517 – 6 March 1561) was an Italian cardinal, and Cardinal Nephew of Pope Paul IV Carafa, whose policies he directed and whom he...

wrote in a letter to the Venetian Senate in 1519: "Cardinal de' Medici, the Pope's cardinal nephew, who is not legitimate, has great power with the Pope;...

29 October 1565) was an Italian prelate of the Farnese family, who was Cardinal of Santa Lucia in Selci from 1545 to his death in 1565. Son of Pier Luigi...

Antonio Latini (1642–1692) was a steward of Cardinal Antonio Barberini, cardinal-nephew of Pope Urban VIII in Rome and subsequently to Don Stefano Carillo...

cardinal Carlo Carafa (1517-1561), cardinal, nephew of Pope Paul IV; executed under Pope Pius IV Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano (died 1561), nephew...

connections added to his influence and power in the region. Cardinal Cossa was one of the seven cardinals who, in May 1408, withdrew their allegiance from Pope...

and the last two elevated his old tutor and a first cardinal-nephew. Two further cardinal-nephews were added on 21 November 1468. In a sign of his increasing...