Girolamo de Bardi

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Girolamo de Bardi or de 'Bardi (born January 31, 1685 in Florence , † March 11, 1761 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal .

Origin and career

Girolamo de Bardi came from the house of the Tuscan Counts of Vernio , a town in what is now the province of Prato . He was born as the eldest of the four children of Flaminio Bardi and Lucrezia Carnesecchi; his siblings were Camillo, Orazio and Sestilia. His parents bought him membership in the Order of Malta and they sent him to Bologna to study at the Jesuit school S. Francesco Zaverio. He received his doctorate in law from the University of Pisa . Through his sister Sestilia he was related to Pope Clement XII. (1730-1740).

Then he went under the patronage of Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini, who later became Pope Clement XI. (1700–1721), to Rome, where he was a member of the Roman prelature in 1715 and of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature from August 8, 1715 . In April 1717 he was appointed governor of Faenza , then from 1717 to 1722 deputy delegate in Ferrara .

From Pope Innocent XIII. (1721–1724) he was brought back to Rome in May 1722, where he was relator of the Holy Consulta . From September 29, 1728 to 1733 he was employed at the tribunal of the Apostolic Chamber , from March 3, 1733 secretary there.

In the consistory of September 9, 1743 he was created cardinal by Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) and placed in the class of cardinal deacons . He received the red cardinal's hat on September 12 of the same year. On September 23, de Bardi received the title deaconry Sant'Adriano al Foro . Since Cardinal de Bardi had not received any spiritual ordination so far, the Minores , the subdiaconate and on December 13th the deacon ordination were donated to him in quick succession . He was ordained a priest two days later . On May 28, 1753 he opted for the title of Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli . On January 12, 1756 he was Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals until January 3, 1757. In 1758 he took part in the conclave that Clement XIII. (1758–1769) chose. However, de Bardi had to leave the conclave on June 28, 1758 due to illness. He could only return at the moment when the new Pope had already been elected, namely per adorationem , i.e. when the cardinal was already considered Pope to whom the usual two-thirds majority of cardinals had worshiped.

Girolamo de Bardi died on March 11, 1761 in Rome and was laid out in the church of San Marcello . He was buried in his titular church Santa Maria degli Angeli in Terme. In his estate, he made 30,000 scudi available for a hospice for the poor.

literature

  • Alessandro Magini (Ed.): Bardi, Girolamo. Lezione sul cioccolato, del Cardinale Girolamo Bardi dei Conti di Vernio. Centro Bardi, Prato 2006.
  • Lorenzo Cardella: Memorie storiche de 'cardinali della Santa Romana Chiesa. 9 vol., Vol. 9, Stamperia Pagliarini, Rome 1797, p. 26 f.
  • Christoph Weber , Michael Becker: Genealogies for papal history. Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1999-2002, Vol. I, p. 96.
  • Christoph Weber: The papal trainee teachers 1566–1809: Chronology and prosopography. 3 vol., Anton Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2003-2004, vol. II, p. 438 f.
  • Christoph Weber: Senatus divinus. Hidden structures in the college of cardinals in the early modern period (1500–1800). Peter Lang, 1996, p. 508, no.684.

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personal data
SURNAME Bardi, Girolamo de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bardis, Hieronymus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1761
Place of death Rome