Lorenzo Campeggio
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Lorenzo Campeggio | |
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Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Cardinal protector of England | |
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Diocese | Sabina |
Appointed | 28 November 1537 |
Term ended | 19 July 1539 |
Predecessor | Bonifacio Ferrero |
Successor | Antonio Sanseverino |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Feltre (1512–1520) |
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Consecration | 6 April 1518 |
Created cardinal | 1 July 1517 by Leo X |
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Born | 7 November 1474 |
Died | 19 July 1539 (aged 64) |
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Parents | Giovanni Zaccaria Campeggio and Dorotea Tebaldini |
Spouse | Francesca Guastavillani |
Children | 5 |
Lorenzo Campeggio (7 November 1474 – 19 July 1539) was an Italian cardinal and politician. He was the last cardinal protector of England.
Life
[edit]Campeggio was born in Milan, the eldest of five sons.
Campeggio was appointed cardinal–protector of England on 22 January 1523.
Campeggio wrote his De depravato statu ecclesiae for Adrian, which proposed radical reforms for the papal bureaucracy.
References
[edit]- E. V. Cardinal, Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio, legate to the courts of Henry VIII and Charles V (1935)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
Further reading
[edit]- Wilkie, William E. 1974. The cardinal protectors of England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20332-5.
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- Miranda, Salvador. "CAMPEGGIO, Lorenzo (1474-1539)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. OCLC 53276621.
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- 1474 births
- 1539 deaths
- Apostolic Nuncios to the Holy Roman Empire
- Diplomats from Milan
- 16th-century Italian cardinals
- Italian expatriates in England
- Bishops of Bologna
- Cardinal-bishops of Albano
- Cardinal-bishops of Palestrina
- Cardinal-bishops of Sabina
- Bishops of Salisbury
- 16th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
- 16th-century Italian jurists
- Italian Renaissance humanists
- Burials at Santa Maria in Trastevere
- Latin Archbishops of Crete
- 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
- Clergy from Milan