Juan Carvajal (Cardinal)

Juan Carvajal (* around 1399/1400 in Trujillo , Estremadura , Spain; † December 6, 1469 in Rome ) was a Spanish cardinal and papal diplomat.

Brief CV

He came from a noble family in the Estremadura and had studied law in Salamanca . From 1438 he was auditor of the Roman Rota , from 1445 chamber auditor .

Legation trips to Venice and Florence were followed between 1440 and 1449 by numerous legations in the Holy Roman Empire and in Bohemia, often in collaboration with Nikolaus von Kues . In 1448 he acted on behalf of Pope Nicholas V with the later Emperor Friedrich III. the Vienna Concordat .

In 1446 he became Bishop of Plasencia and Cardinal Deacon of S. Angelo ; In 1461 he was promoted to Cardinal Bishop of Porto.

From Pope Calixt III. he was sent to Hungary in 1455 to preach a crusade against the Turks. Together with Johannes Kapistran , he gathered a force which strengthened the army of Johann Hunyadi near Belgrade . Further trips in the Danube region and the Balkans followed until 1461.

In a letter dated March 12, 1455, the then secretary and councilor of Emperor Frederick III, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), told him about the first printing of the Bible . Giovanni Andrea Bussi , Carvajal's secretary in the legation to Venice in 1466/1467, later wrote numerous forewords for Konrad Sweynheym and Arnold Pannartz .

literature

Bruno W. Häuptli: Juan Carvajal (Cardinal). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 207-210. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Erich Meuthen : Carvajal, Juan de. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters Volume 2 (1983), Col. 1536.
M. Alamo: Carvajal (Jean de). In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques Volume 11 (1949), Col. 1240-1242.
Thomas Shahan: Juan Carvajal (Carvagial) . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 3, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1908.
Wilhelm Fraknói : Cardinal Joannes Carvajal's legations in Hungary 1448–1461. In: Hungarian Revue 10 (1890), pages 1 -18, 124 -143, 399 -425.

Web links

Carvajal, Juan de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 23, 2016.
Publications on Juan de Carvajal in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii .

Remarks

^ Andreas Meyer : Wiener Konkordat, 1448. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns. September 10, 2010, accessed April 15, 2011 .
↑ Erich Meuthen: A new, early source testimony (to October 1454?) For the oldest Bible print. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 57 (1982), pp. 108-118; Martin Davies: Juan de Carvajal and Early Printing: The 42-line Bible and the Sweynheym and Pannartz Aquinas. In: The Library s6-XVIII (1996), pp. 193-215 doi: 10.1093 / library / s6-XVIII.3.193 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Guillaume d'Estouteville	Cardinal Bishop of Porto 1461–1469	Richard Olivier de Longueil

personal data
SURNAME	Carvajal, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cardinal and papal diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1399-1400
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trujillo , Estremadura , Spain
DATE OF DEATH	December 6, 1469
Place of death	Rome

[1] Andreas Meyer : Wiener Konkordat, 1448. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns. September 10, 2010, accessed April 15, 2011 .

[2] Erich Meuthen: A new, early source testimony (to October 1454?) For the oldest Bible print. In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 57 (1982), pp. 108-118; Martin Davies: Juan de Carvajal and Early Printing: The 42-line Bible and the Sweynheym and Pannartz Aquinas. In: The Library s6-XVIII (1996), pp. 193-215 doi: 10.1093 / library / s6-XVIII.3.193 .