Antonio Panciera

Antonio Cardinal Panciera

modern tracing of his cardinal's coat of arms

Antonio Panciera (* 1350 in Portogruaro ; † July 3, 1431 in Rome ) was a Venetian cardinal . He was Bishop of Concordia 1393 to 1402, Patriarch of Aquileia 1402-1412 and secretary of Pope Boniface IX.

Life

He studied law at the University of Padua and was appointed cardinal priest on July 6, 1411 . His titular church was Santa Susanna . In fact, he was a pseudocardinal (he had received the purple robe from the antipope John XXIII ), but nevertheless took part in that conclave of 1417 that elected Martin V as pope during the Council of Constance . From 1420 on he was administrator of the suburbicarian diocese of Tusculum . After the conclave of 1431 he was raised to Cardinal Bishop of Frascati by the new Pope Eugene IV , in whose election he had participated .

He was a well-educated personality, an accomplished politician , but actually a humanistic scholar .

Ernesto Degani: Il Codice diplomatico di Antonio Panciera da Portogruaro, Patriarca d'Aquileia e cardinale di S. Chiesa 1406-1411. Venezia 1898.
Cesare Scalon: Pancera, Antonio. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 80: Ottone I-Pansa. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.

Panciera, Antonio (pseudocardinal). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 23, 2017.
Thomas Frenz : Repertorium Officialium Romanae Curiae (search for Portugruaro)
Recto and verso of a denarius of the Patriarch Antonius in the Classical Numismatic Group. Clearer illustration than the Commons picture.

predecessor	Office	successor
Baldassare Cossa (previously as John XXIII Antipope)	Cardinal Bishop of Frascati 1431	Hugo-Lancelot de Lusignan (from 1436)
Antonio I. Gaetani	Patriarch of Aquileia 1402-1412	Ludwig IV of Teck
Agostino	Bishop of Concordia 1392–1402	Antonio da Ponte