Conclave 1623
The 1623 conclave was the electoral assembly of the cardinals after the death of Pope Gregory XV. and lasted from July 19, 1623 to August 6, 1623. His election fell after 18 days on Maffeo Barberini, who called himself Pope Urban VIII .
history
The college of cardinals comprised 66 members at the beginning of the conclave, of which 12 cardinals were not in Rome at the time of the conclave , so that the conclave had 54 participants.
The cardinals of the conclave were created by the following popes:
- Gregory XV. : 9 cardinals
- Paul V : 32 cardinals
- Clement VIII .: 8 cardinals
- Gregory XIV . : 2 cardinals
- Sixtus V .: 2 cardinals
- Gregory XIII. : 1 cardinal
The conclave was divided into four groups:
- The ancients : They were cardinals who had been appointed before Pope Paul V.
- The Prince-Cardinals : They consisted of the Farnese and d'Este, as well as Cardinal di Savoia.
- The Borghesiani : They were the creatures of Pope Paul V and numbered between 22 and 25 cardinals.
- The Ludovisiani : They were given by the cardinal nepot of the late Pope Gregory XV. Ludovico Ludovisi . Only having 15 members, their number later grew to 20.
Attendees
- Cardinal Dean : Antonio Maria Sauli
- Cardinal Sub-Dean : Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte
- Maffeo Barberini
- Giovanni Battista Deti
- Francesco Sforza di Santa Fiora
- Ottavio Bandini
- Federico Borromeo
- Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto
- Bonifacio Bevilacqua
- Alessandro d'Este
- Domenico Ginnasi
- Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo
- Giovanni Doria
- Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
- Scipione Caffarelli Borghese
- Giovanni Garzia Millini
- Marcello Lante della Rovere
- Maurizio di Savoia
- Fabrizio Veralli
- Giovanni Battista Leni
- Luigi Capponi
- Dezio Carafa
- Domenico Rivarola
- Pier Paolo Crescenzi
- Giacomo Serra
- Agostino Galamini
- Gaspar Borgia
- Felice Centini
- Roberto Ubaldini
- Tiberio Muti
- Gabriel Trejo Paniagua
- Carlo de Medici
- Giulio Savelli
- Melchior Cl
- Pietro Campora
- Matteo Priuli
- Scepino Cobelluzz
- Francesco Cennini de'Salamandri
- Guido Bentivoglio
- Pietro Valier
- Vain Friedrich von Zollern
- Giulio Roma
- Cesare Gherardi
- Desiderio Scaglia
- Stefano Pignatelli
- Ludovico Ludovisi
- Antonio Caetani
- Francesco Sacrati
- Francesco Boncompagni
- Ippolito Aldobrandini
- Lucio Sanseverino
- Marco Antonio Gozzadini
- Cosmo de Torres
- Ottavio Rodolfi
Absent cardinals
- Franz Xaver von Dietrichstein
- François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis
- Antonio Zapata y Cisneros
- François de la Rochefoucald
- Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval
- Alessandro Orsini
- Francisco Gomez de Sandoval y Rojas
- Ferdinand of Austria
- Louis de Nogaret d´Epernon de la Valette
- Agostino Spinola
- Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu
- Alfonso de la Cueva