Conclave 1724
The conclave of 1724 occurred after the death of Pope Innocent XIII. (7 March 1724) in the Quirinale Palace together and met on 20 March 1724 to 29 May 1724. It took 71 days and you Vincenzo Maria Cardinal Orsini chose the Pope , which the Pope name Benedict XIII. assumed.
College of Cardinals
When Pope Innocent XIII. died, the college of cardinals numbered 65 cardinals. The 53 cardinals participating in the conclave were appointed in the pontificate of the popes
- Clemens X .: one
- Innocent XI. : one
- Alexander VIII : five
- Innocent XII. : four
- Clement XI. : forty one
- Innocent XIII .: one
The following cardinals took part in the conclave:
- Sebastiano Antonio Tanara , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri and Cardinal Dean († May 5, 1724)
- Vincenzo Maria Orsini , OP , Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina , Subdean of the College of Cardinals (elected Pope as Benedict XIII)
- Francesco del Giudice , Bishop of Frascati
- Fabrizio Paolucci , Bishop of Albano
- Francesco Pignatelli , seniore, OTheat. , Archbishop of Naples and Bishop of Sabina
- Francesco Barberini the Younger , Bishop of Palestrina
- Giacomo Boncompagni , Archbishop of Bologna
- Giuseppe Sacripante
- Lorenzo Corsini
- Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona
- Tommaso Ruffo
- Orazio Filippo Spada , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Osimo
- Filippo Antonio Gualterio , Archbishop, former Bishop of Todi
- Giuseppe Vallemani
- Carlo Agostino Fabroni
- Pietro Priuli , Bishop of Bergamo
- Ulisse Giuseppe Gozzadini , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Imola
- Annibale Albani
- Lodovico Pico della Mirandola
- Gianantonio Davia , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Rimini
- Agostino Cusani , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Pavia
- Giulio Piazza , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Faenza
- Antonfelice Zondadari
- Giovanni Battista Bussi , Archbishop pro hac vice , Bishop of Ancona
- Pier Marcellino Corradini
- Armand-Gaston-Maximilien de Rohan , Bishop of Strasbourg
- Giovanni Battista Tolomei , SJ
- Benedetto Erba-Odescalchi , Archbishop of Milan
- Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy , Bishop of Meaux
- Innico Caracciolo , iuniore , Bishop of Aversa
- Bernardino Scotti
- Giambattista Patrizi
- Niccolò Spinola
- Giberto Bartolomeo Borromeo
- Giorgio Spinola
- Cornelio Bentivoglio
- Giovanni Francesco Barbarigo , Bishop of Brescia
- Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada , Orat. , Bishop of Cartagena
- José Pereira de Lacerda , Bishop of Faro
- Giovanni Battista Salerni , SJ
- Carlos de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de León , Patriarch of the West Indies
- Ávaro Cienfuegos Villazón , SJ , Bishop of Catania
- Bernardo Maria Conti , OSBCas.
- Benedetto Pamphilj , OSIo.Hieros. , Librarian of the Holy Roman Church
- Pietro Ottoboni
- Giuseppe Renato Imperiali
- Lorenzo Altieri
- Carlo Colonna
- Curzio Origo
- Melchior de Polignac
- Fabio Olivieri
- Carlo Maria Marini
- Giulio Alberoni
- Alessandro Albani , OSIo.Hieros.
Cardinal Dean Sebastiano Antonio Tanara had to leave the conclave because of a serious illness on April 15, 1724, he died while the Sedis vacancy on May 5, 1724.
The following cardinals did not attend the conclave:
- Galeazzo Marescotti
- Louis-Antoine de Noailles , Archbishop of Paris
- Lorenzo Fieschi , Archbishop of Genoa
- Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz , Bishop of Győr
- Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde
- Wolfgang Hannibal von Schrattenbach , Bishop of Olomouc
- Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn , Bishop of Speyer
- Niccolò Caracciolo , Archbishop of Capua
- Imre Csácky , Archbishop of Kalocsa and Bács
- Léon Potier des Gesvres , Archbishop of Bourges
- Thomas Philippe Wallrad d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace-Boussu de Chimay , Archbishop of Mechelen
- Mihály Frigyes Althan , Bishop of Vác
conclave
When the conclave met on March 20, 1724, there were 31 participants, but the number soon rose to 53. Only 12 cardinals did not take part in the election. The venue of the conclave was the Vatican.
Election observers and speakers were in the conclave
- for Germany: Cardinal Alvaro Cienfuegos
- for France: Cardinal Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan de Soubise
- for Spain: Cardinal Francesco Acquaviva de'Aragona .
Right from the start, the Zelanti party tried to enforce Cardinal Imperiali , but the French and Spanish rejected him. Cardinal Paolucci also failed as a candidate. Cardinal Annibale Albani now proposed the six cardinals Corsini, Spada , Piazza , Barbarigo , Bussi and Olivieri as candidates. Of them, he preferred Bussi and Olivieri.
When Cardinal Rohan arrived on April 12th, the rumor immediately spread that he should push through the election of Olivieri. There were also rumors that Olivieri had promised the King of France that after his election he would abrogate the bull Unigenitus Dei Filius and cede various Italian areas to Spain.
On April 25, Cardinal Polignac and the imperial ambassador, Count Kaunitz, arrived. He informed Cardinal Alvaro Cienfuegos that the choice of Cardinals Pamfili, Vallemani, Spada, Piazza, Corradini, Caracciolo, Tanara, Gozzadini, Orsini, Ruffo, Colonna, Davia, Boncompagni, Pico and Pignatelli was pleasant for the emperor.
Cardinal Cienfuegos now tried, supported by the French, to have Cardinal Piazza elected Pope. He had a block of 32 cardinals for this, so that he was only four votes short. But Cardinal Albani tried everything to prevent this election. For this he even started a rumor that Piazza was a Jansenist . The odds of piazzas decreased every day. In the election on May 23rd, Cardinal Orsini received 26 votes and in the election on May 24th 27 votes.
On the evening of May 28th, Cardinal Belluga Orsini announced his impending election, but the candidate was reluctant to vote. Finally, on the morning of May 29, Cardinals Albani, Tolomei, and Corradini managed to allay Orsini's concerns. When it came to the election in the Sistine Chapel , Cardinal Orsini won all votes.
Orsini took the Pope's name Benedict, but overlooked that Benedict XIII. had been one of the anti-popes and initially called himself Benedict XIV, until the error was cleared up and the ordinal number in XIII. was changed.
Web links
- Conclave of March 20 - May 29, 1724. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 18, 2015.
- Vaticanhistory
Individual evidence
- ^ Conclave of March 20 - May 29, 1724. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed June 18, 2015.