Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
Angelo Capranica
(c. 1415 -1478) (called the
Cardinal of Santa Croce
or the
Cardinal of Rieti
) was an
Italian
Roman Catholic
bishop
and
cardinal
.
Biography
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Angelo
Capranica
was born in
Rome
around 1415, the son of de Niccolo Pantagati da Capranica and his wife, Iacobella.
[1]
He was the younger brother of
Domenico Capranica
, who became a cardinal in 1423 but was not recognized as such by Pope
Eugene IV
until much later.
[1]
Angelo was elected
Archbishop of Manfredonia
on 17 March 1438. This may have been tied to his brother's reconciliation with the pope.
[1]
Angelo was transferred to the
see of Ascoli Piceno
by Pope
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
consistory
celebrated in Siena on 5 March 1460, Pope Pius II made Capranica a
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
legate
a latere
to
Bologna
.
[1]
He returned to Rome on 31 December 1460. He left Rome for Bologna a second time on 18 May 1461, returning on November 17.
[1]
He left for Bologna a third time on 23 February 1463, before rejoining the
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 Llancol 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
cardinal bishop
, taking the
suburbicarian see of Palestrina
, though retaining his
titulus
of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
in commendam
.
[1]
Angelo Capranica was at times abbot
in commendam
of the
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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Further reading
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- 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.
- Chacon, 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), Munich: 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.
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