Francesco Guidobono Cavalchini

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Francesco Guidobono Cavalchini , also Francesco Cavalchini Guidobono (born December 4, 1755 in Tortona , † December 5, 1828 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Born as the son of baron Pietro Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini and his wife Antonia Maria dalla Valle Agnelli Maffei, a patrician from Casale Monferrato , he was the great-nephew of Cardinal Carlo Alberto Guidobono Cavalchini . He received his first education in his hometown Tortona, in 1769 he studied at the Collegio Clementino in Rome as a pupil of his great-uncle, later he continued his studies at the Pontifical Academy for the Ecclesiastical Nobility , where he was trained in diplomacy . In 1779 he became papal chamberlain and the following year papal house prelate . In the years leading up to the French occupation, he held various positions in the administration of the Papal States .

After the reestablishment of papal rule, he became governor of Rome and vice- camerlengo of the Roman Church in 1800 ; he held both positions until April 6, 1817. After Napoleonic troops marched into Rome on February 2, 1808, Guidobono Cavalchini was appointed to Rome on April 21, 1817. April 1808 imprisoned in Castel Sant'Angelo on behalf of General Miollis ; he then spent three months as a prisoner in the fortress of Fenestrelle and was then exiled to the south of France. The essentially justified reasons for this lay, as Luigi Pianciani remarked extremely critically (and probably exaggerated) a few decades later, in the accusation of despotism : "[...] a madman [...] he had him tied up, whipped, given the rope on a whim , a word, a gesture because of […] the general opinion was that his brain was confused. "

After the renewed restoration of the papal state, he was reinstated in his position as governor of Rome on September 23, 1814 , but the management of the official business was transferred to a pro-governor.

Pope Pius VII appointed him cardinal in the consistory of August 24, 1807 in pectore . As it is in the nature of such a "secret" appointment, nobody - not even Guidobono Cavalchini himself - found out about it. His cardinal elevation was only announced on April 6, 1818 after more than a decade. The official appointment of Francesco Guido Bono Cavalchinis to Cardinal Deacon of the Title Diakonie Santa Maria in Aquiro took place on 25 May 1818. From 1822 to 1823 he was Camerlengo of the Sacred College . He took part in the conclave of 1823 , from which Leo XII. emerged as Pope.

Francesco Cavalchini Guidobono died one day after his 73rd birthday in December 1828 and was buried in the church of his titular deaconry Santa Maria in Aquiro .

literature

  • Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni specialmente intorno ai principali santi… Volume 11: Cav-Chi. Tipografia Emiliana, 1841, p. 5 f., Digitized in the Google book search
  • Francesco Raco:  Cavalchini Guidobono, Francesco. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22:  Castelvetro – Cavallotti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so Francesco Raco:  Cavalchini Guidobono, Francesco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22. Rome 1979.
  2. ^ Luigi Pianciani : La Rome des Papes. I, Basel - London 1859, p. 213 f. Quoted from Francesco Raco
personal data
SURNAME Guidobono Cavalchini, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cavalchini Guidobono, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Tortona
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1828
Place of death Rome