Conclave September 1503
The conclave of September 1503 was the electoral assembly of the cardinals after the death of Pope Alexander VI. († August 18, 1503) and lasted from September 16, 1503 to September 22, 1503. His choice fell on Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, who himself as Pope Pius III. called.
history
The college of cardinals had 45 members at the beginning of the conclave . Eight cardinals were not in Rome at the time of the conclave , so that the conclave numbered 37 participants.
The cardinals of the conclave were created by the following five popes:
- Pius II : 1 cardinal
- Paul II : 1 cardinal
- Sixtus IV . : 6 cardinals
- Innocent VIII .: 4 cardinals
- Alexander VI .: 25 cardinals
Attendees
- Giuliano della Rovere , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and Velletri , Dean of the College of Cardinals
- Jorge da Costa , Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina , Subdean of the College of Cardinals
- Girolamo Basso della Rovere , Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina
- Oliviero Carafa , Cardinal Bishop of Sabina , Administrator of Naples
- Antonio Gentile Pallavicino , Cardinal Bishop of Frascati
- Lorenzo Cibo de 'Mari , Cardinal Bishop of Albano
- Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini , administrator of Siena , as Pius III. elected pope
- Raffaele Sansoni Riario , administrator of Viterbo and Cuenca
- Giovanni Colonna
- Ascanio Maria Sforza , administrator of Pavia , Cremona , Novara and Agrigento
- Giovanni de 'Medici
- Federico Sanseverino
- Giovanni Antonio San Giorgio , Bishop of Parma
- Bernardino López de Carvajal , Bishop of Sigüenza , administrator of Avellino and Frigento
- Giuliano Cesarini iuniore , administrator of Ascoli Piceno
- Domenico Grimani , Patriarch of Aquileia
- Alessandro Farnese seniore , administrator of Corneto and Montefiascone
- Luigi d'Aragona , administrator of Aversa , Capaccio , Policastro and Lecce
- Juan de Castro , Bishop of Agrigento
- Georges d'Amboise , Archbishop of Rouen
- Amanieu d'Albret , administrator of Oloron , Condom and Comminges
- Pedro Luis de Borja Llançol de Romaní , OSIo.Hieros., Archbishop of Valencia
- Jaime Serra i Cau , Archbishop of Oristano
- Francisco de Borja , Archbishop of Cosenza and Bishop of Teano
- Juan de Vera , Archbishop of Salerno
- Ludovico Podocathor , Archbishop of Benevento
- Antonio Trivulzio seniore , Bishop of Como
- Marco Cornaro
- Giovanni Stefano Ferrero , Archbishop of Bologna
- Juan Castellar y de Borja , Archbishop of Monreale
- Francisco de Remolins , Archbishop of Sorrento
- Francesco Soderini , Bishop of Volterra
- Niccolò Fieschi , Bishop of Fréjus
- Francisco Desprats , Bishop of León
- Adriano di Castello , Bishop of Hereford
- Jaime de Casanova
- Francisco Lloris y de Borja , Bishop of Elne , Administrator of Valence et Die , Archbishop of Trani , Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
Absent cardinals
- Luis Juan del Milà , Bishop of Lérida , retired
- Raymund Pérault OSA, Bishop of Gurk
- Ippolito d'Este , administrator of Eger , Capua , Ferrara and Milan
- Guillaume Briçonnet , Bishop of Saint-Malo and Archbishop of Reims
- Philip of Luxembourg , Bishop of Le Mans and Terouanne
- Tamás Bakócz , Archbishop of Esztergom
- Pietro Isvalies , Archbishop of Reggio Calabria
- Melchior von Meckau , Bishop of Brixen
course
When Alexander VI. died, Cesare Borgia , his son, was governor of Rome and thus ruled the city. He could count on the support of 14 Spanish cardinals. Cesare Borgia was seriously ill and was unable to carry out his intention to usurp the papal state. When the conclave began on September 16, 1503, murder, pillage, and violent confrontation were the order of the day in Rome, and pressure was exerted on the assembled cardinals. The 37 cardinals were almost equally divided between three national parties (Spanish, French and Italian). This balance initially prevented an agreement on a candidate. It was only the French Cardinal Georges d'Amboise that drew the groups' attention to a candidate. On September 22, 1503, Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini was elected Pope with 35 votes.
Piccolomini came from Sarteano near Siena , he was a nephew of Pope Pius II. When he was elected, he was already 64 years old and seriously ill with gout , so he was considered a transitional pope from the outset. In memory of his uncle he called himself Pius III. His coronation on October 8, 1503 ended a sedis vacancy of 51 days.
Web links
- Conclave of September 16 to 22, 1503. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 24, 2016.
- Entry for Conclave September 1503 at catholic-hierarchy.org, accessed January 21, 2017
- Vaticanhistory