Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia

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Cardinal Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia

Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia (born January 5, 1585 in Ferrara , † June 1, 1641 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Pio di Savoia was a so-called political cardinal. His elevation to cardinal took place on June 9, 1604 by Pope Clement VIII , in order to politically bind the Duchy of Ferrara closer to himself. Ferrara was a papal fiefdom. The last Duke of Ferrara, Alfonso II d'Este , had died without a legitimate heir. The Pope was thus entitled to reintegrate the duchy into his territory. Ferrara thus became a province in the papal territory.

In order to be able to exercise decisive influence in Ferrara, Clement VIII and his cardinal nepot Pietro Aldobrandini had to bind the politically influential layers to themselves. This was done through the appointment of two cardinals from the Ferrarese family. In addition to Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia, this was Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini, who had been in the church for a long time .

The Gothic Cathedral of Ferrara - The appointment of Pio di Savoia as cardinal was made in order to politically bind the heirless duchy more closely to the Pope.

Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia was only 19 years old when his cardinalate began in 1604 and, according to canon law, too young for this office. However, his family pushed for his elevation, as Clement VIII was relatively old and his death was to be feared. In June 1604 he was assigned the title diaconia of San Nicola in Carcere as a cardinal deacon . The following Pope Leo XI. also died after a few weeks. In 1605 Pope Paul V was elected from the Borghese family . During his pontificate , Cardinal Pio di Savoia was largely isolated within the Curia , as the Borghese family was closely connected to the Bentivoglio and could exercise their claim to power in Ferrara over them. In 1608 the cardinal withdrew from Rome to Ferrara.

Cardinal Pio di Savoia only came to influence in 1621, when the pontificate of Paul V ended and Gregory XV. followed him. Pio di Savoia was one of those cardinals who prevented the election of the candidate of the Borghese family and thus the victory of Gregory XV. made possible in the conclave . Under Gregory XV. and his cardinal depot, Ludovico Ludovisi , he received a package of privileges as thanks. Just a few days after the papal election, di Savoia was appointed legate of the Marches and was thus the administrative head of this province. He was at the request of Gregory XV. also appointed to numerous consistories . He lost his legacy after the end of the Pope's pontificate, which lasted only two years. With Urban VIII , however, followed a man on the papal throne whom Pio de Savoia knew well from his student days in Perugia . The cardinal was also appointed by the new pontiff to numerous committees that advised the Pope on foreign policy issues. In addition, in 1623 he received the title diakonia Santa Maria in Via Lata , became cardinal priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in 1626 , but switched to the titular church of San Lorenzo in Lucina that same year . 1627 took Pope Urban VIII it in the class of. Cardinal bishops on what di Savoia on May 9 of that year by Cardinal Ottavio Bandini the episcopal ordination received; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Giuseppe Acquaviva and Pietro Montorio , the former Bishop of Nicastro . The high favor that Pio di Savoia enjoyed with Urban, who had long ruled, is evidenced by the following assignments of the suburbicarian dioceses of Albano (1627) and Porto (1630), where he also became cardinal subdean of the Holy College . In 1639 he was finally raised to the seat of Ostia , as di Savoia had been elected Dean of the College of Cardinals .

Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia took part as cardinal in the papal elections in March / April 1605 , May 1605 , 1621 and 1623 . He supported Ferdinando Ughelli when he wrote the Italia Sacra .

His death was attributed to an epileptic fit . He was buried in Rome in the church Il Gesú .

literature

  • Birgit Emich : career jump and image change. The two faces of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia. In: Arne Karsten (ed.): The hunt for the red hat. Cardinal careers in baroque Rome. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-36277-3 , p. 126 ff.

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Domenico Ginnasi Dean of the College of Cardinals
1639–1641 		Marcello Lante
Domenico Ginnasi Cardinal Bishop of Ostia
1639–1641 		Marcello Lante
Domenico Ginnasi Cardinal Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
1630–1639 		Marcello Lante
Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto Cardinal Bishop of Albano
1627–1630 		Gaspar de Borja y Velasco
personal data
SURNAME Pio di Savoia, Carlo Emmanuele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1641
Place of death Rome