List of the cardinal creations of Leo IX.

Pope Leo IX (1049-1054) created a total of 26 cardinals . (according to other information only 14 or 15)

background

Under Pope Leo IX. For the first time, cardinal positions were not only transferred to members of the Roman city nobility , with which this Pope created the basis for the later College of Cardinals . With him the time of the so-called reform papacy began .

Cardinal creations

1049

Giovanni, Bishop of Toscanella , Cardinal Bishop of Porto , † 1061/1062
Crescentius , Cardinal Bishop of Silva Candida , † 1051
Boniface of Tusculum , Cardinal Bishop of Albano , † probably 1072
Bonizzo, Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum ( Frascati ), † around 1050
Giovanni, (Cardinal) Bishop of Tivoli , † around 1071, may have been only of Victor II. Created
Leone, cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina , cardinal archpriest in 1068, later went to the imperial party under Clement (III) , † between 1088 and 1099
Giovanni, Cardinal Priest of San Marco , † after April 13, 1059
Leone, cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso , † around 1072
Guido, cardinal priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere (or Santi Callisto e Giulio ), † before 1061
Hugo Candidus , cardinal priest of San Clemente , later went over to the party of Clement III, from 1084 Bishop of Fermo , † around 1099
Giovanni, cardinal priest (title church unknown), 1050 archpriest of St. Peter, † after 1050
Raynier, cardinal priest, † after October 1, 1071
Mainardo, Cardinal Priest, 1061 Cardinal Bishop of Silva Candida, † before August 8, 1074
Stephan, cardinal priest, † around 1072
Étienne, cardinal priest, † February 11, 1069

1050

Frederick of Lorraine , came to Rome around 1050, was cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica and abbot of Monte Cassino around 1054, cardinal priest of San Crisogono from June 14, 1057 , elected Pope (Stephen IX) on August 2, 1057, † March 29, 1058

John of Ostia , Cardinal Bishop of Ostia , † 1058

Pietro, Cardinal Bishop ( suburbicarian diocese unknown), † 1058

Giovanni Mincius , Cardinal Bishop of Velletri , April 5, 1058 (Counter) Pope Benedict X., deposed in 1059, † 1073/1074

Petrus von Frascati , Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum (Frascati), † 1059

Amantius von Marsi, cardinal deacon, † after May 1059

Gregory, cardinal deacon, † after 1050

Crescenzio, cardinal deacon, † after May 1059

Odon de Toul , Cardinal Deacon, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, † after January 1051

1051

Humbert von Silva Candida , Cardinal Bishop of Silva Candida, papal legate in Constantinople in 1054 , was instrumental in the excommunication of Patriarch Michael Kerullarios , under Stephen IX. finally Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, † May 5, 1061

Around 1054

Giovanni, Cardinal Bishop of Sabina , initially joined the (counter) Pope Benedict X, then returned to Nicholas II , † after June 1062

Individual evidence

^ Cardinals created by Leo IX. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed July 21, 2016.
^ Jürgen Dendorfer , Ralf Lützelschwab: The history of the cardinalate in the Middle Ages. Stuttgart 2011, pp. 463–464 (list of cardinals)
↑ DER SPIEGEL history: The Popes , issue 4/2012, p. 50
↑ Giovanni. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
↑ Leone. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English)
↑ Mincius, Giovanni. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website , English). Cardinal Stefano Borgia wrote an Apologia del Pontificato di Benedetto X. in 1752 , in which he designates Benedict X. as the rightful Pope