Cardinal electors for the March–April 1605 papal conclave

Engraving of Pope Leo XI who was elected pope at the March 1605 conclave.
Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, previously the Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina, was elected Pope Leo XI on 1 April 1605.[1]

The papal conclave of March–April 1605 was convened on the death of Pope Clement VIII and ended with the election of Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici as Pope Leo XI on 1 April 1605. It was the first of two papal conclaves in 1605, with Leo dying on 27 April 1605, twenty-six days after he was elected, and the conclave to elect his successor being held in May. The conclave saw conflict regarding whether Cesare Baronius should be elected pope, and Philip III of Spain, the Spanish king, excluded both Baronius and the eventually successful candidate, Medici.[2][3] Philip's exclusion of Medici was announced by Cardinal Ávila after his election to the papacy, and the other cardinals did not view it as valid since Medici had already been elected pope.[4]

Nicholas II had reserved the right to elect the pope to the cardinal bishops, priests, and deacons of Rome in 1059.[5] The cardinal bishops were the highest rank, being the bishops of the ancient suburbicarian dioceses, the priests ranked next, who served as the titular head of historically important churches in Rome, and last ranked the cardinal deacons, who were nominally assigned one of the ancient diaconia where traditionally deacons had administered the temporal property of the Church of Rome. Cardinals were required to have been ordained at least to the rank of their order within the College of Cardinals, but could also be ordained to a higher order as well.[6]

In 1586, Pope Sixtus V mandated that the maximum number of cardinals would be seventy.[7] Of these, the College of Cardinals had sixty-nine total members at the time of Clement VIII's death, but only sixty were present for the first conclave of 1605 when it opened, and sixty-one total electors were present for the election of Leo XI.[1][8] The electors present had been created by six different popes: Pius IV, Gregory XIII, Sixtus V, Gregory XIV, Innocent IX, and Clement VIII. Of these, Clement's creations were the most numerous, having created thirty-eight of the cardinal electors. Innocent IX had created one of the conclave's electors, Gregory XIV had created five, Sixtus V had created eleven, Gregory XIII had created four, and Pius IV had created one.[9][i]

Pietro Aldobrandini, the cardinal-nephew of Clement VIII, was the elector who controlled the largest number of votes with twenty-two of Clement's thirty-eight creations following his instructions. Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, the nephew of Sixtus V, controlled eight votes. Thirteen of the cardinal electors were loyal to the Spanish monarchy, and these electors and the faction loyal to Montalto were aligned. In addition to these groups, eight of the electors formed a faction that were loyal to the French crown.[10]

List of cardinal electors

Painting of Caesar Baronius, one of the major candidates in the March 1605 conclave.
Caesar Baronius was one of the leading candidates in the March 1605 conclave, but was excluded by the Spanish monarchy.
Name Rank[11][ii] Created cardinal by[9] Nationality Sources
Tolomeo Gallio Bishop Pius IV Italian [12]
Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici[iii] Bishop Gregory XIII Italian [1]
François de Joyeuse Bishop Gregory XIII French [13]
Domenico Pinelli Bishop Sixtus V[iv] Italian [14]
Girolamo Bernerio Bishop Sixtus V[iv] Italian [14]
Agostino Valier Priest Gregory XIII Italian [15]
Antonio Maria Gallo Priest Sixtus V Italian [14]
Antonmaria Sauli Priest Sixtus V Italian [16]
Benedetto Giustiniani Priest Sixtus V Italian [17]
Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta Priest Sixtus V Italian [16]
Federico Borromeo Priest Sixtus V Italian [16]
Francesco Maria del Monte Priest Sixtus V Italian [16]
Gregorio Petrocchini Priest Sixtus V Italian [18]
Mariano Pierbenedetti Priest Sixtus V Italian [18]
Paolo Emilio Sfondrati Priest Gregory XIV Italian [19]
Ottavio Paravicini Priest Gregory XIV Italian [19]
Ottavio Acquaviva d'Aragona Priest Gregory XIV Italian [19]
Flaminio Piatti Priest Gregory XIV Italian [20]
Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce[v] Priest Innocent IX Italian [21]
Pietro Aldobrandini Priest Clement VIII Italian [22]
Francesco Maria Tarugi Priest Clement VIII Italian [22]
Ottavio Bandini Priest Clement VIII Italian [22]
Anne d'Escars de Givry Priest Clement VIII French [22]
Giovanni Francesco Biandrate di San Giorgio Aldobrandini Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Camillo Borghese Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Caesar Baronius Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Lorenzo Bianchetti Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Francisco de Ávila Priest Clement VIII Spanish [23]
Francesco Mantica Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Pompeio Arrigoni Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini Priest Clement VIII Italian [23]
Alfonso Visconti Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Domenico Toschi Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Girolamo Agucchi Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Paolo Emilio Zacchia Priest Clement VIII Italian [25]
Franz von Dietrichstein[vi] Priest Clement VIII German [24][26]
Robert Bellarmine Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
François de Sourdis Priest Clement VIII French [24]
Séraphin Olivier-Razali Priest Clement VIII French [27]
Filippo Spinelli Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Carlo Conti Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo Priest Clement VIII German[vii] [27]
Jacques Davy Duperron Priest Clement VIII French [24]
Innocenzo del Bufalo-Cancellieri Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Giovanni Delfino Priest Clement VIII Italian [24]
Giacomo Sannesio Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Girolamo Pamphili Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Ferdinando Taverna Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Anselmo Marzato Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Erminio Valenti Priest Clement VIII Italian [1]
Francesco Sforza Deacon Gregory XIII Italian [13]
Alessandro Peretti di Montalto Deacon Sixtus V Italian [28]
Odoardo Farnese Deacon Gregory XIV Italian [29]
Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini Deacon Clement VIII Italian [22]
Bartolomeo Cesi Deacon Clement VIII Italian [23]
Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto Deacon Clement VIII Italian [23]
Alessandro d'Este Deacon Clement VIII Italian [24]
Giovanni Battista Deti Deacon Clement VIII Italian [24]
Silvestro Aldobrandini Deacon Clement VIII Italian [22]
Giovanni Andrea Doria Deacon Clement VIII Italian [1]
Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia Deacon Clement VIII Italian [1]

Notes

  1. ^ Pastor lists Gregory XIII as having six electors, attributing Bernerio and Pinelli to him, and Sixtus V as having nine. Eubel counts them as being created by Sixtus V, and gives specific dates for their creations as cardinals.
  2. ^ Refers to rank within the College of Cardinals, and is not reflective of whether or not the individual had been ordained or consecrated to other Holy Orders
  3. ^ Elected Pope Leo XI
  4. ^ a b Pastor lists as a creation of Gregory XIII, but Eubel lists as created by Sixtus V.
  5. ^ Not Pope Innocent IX, born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti, who died in 1591
  6. ^ Entered the conclave on 19 March 1605
  7. ^ Madruzzo was bishop of Trent, in modern Italy. Gauchat classifies him as German, and does not simply list the city as he does for Italians.

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Gauchat 1960, p. 8.
  2. ^ Freiherr von Pastor 1952, p. 8.
  3. ^ Baumgartner 2003, pp. 139–140.
  4. ^ Freiherr von Pastor 1952, p. 17.
  5. ^ Pattenden 2017, p. 14.
  6. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, pp. 321–322.
  7. ^ Pattenden 2017, p. 18.
  8. ^ Freiherr von Pastor 1952, p. 4.
  9. ^ a b Freiherr von Pastor 1952, p. 5.
  10. ^ Freiherr von Pastor 1952, pp. 5–7.
  11. ^ Gauchat 1960, p. 9.
  12. ^ Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 40.
  13. ^ a b Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 47.
  14. ^ a b c Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 51.
  15. ^ Gauchat 1960, p. 47.
  16. ^ a b c d Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 52.
  17. ^ Squarzina 1997, p. 766.
  18. ^ a b Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 53.
  19. ^ a b c Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 54.
  20. ^ Giannini 2015.
  21. ^ Cardella 1793, p. 324.
  22. ^ a b c d e f Gauchat 1960, p. 4.
  23. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Gauchat 1960, p. 5.
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Gauchat 1960, p. 6.
  25. ^ Herbermann et al. 1913, p. 529.
  26. ^ Freiherr von Pastor 1952, p. 13.
  27. ^ a b Gauchat 1960, p. 7.
  28. ^ Eubel & van Gulik 1913, p. 50.
  29. ^ The British Museum.

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