List of cardinals created by Paul III.

In the course of his pontificate, Pope Paul III created the following cardinals :

December 18, 1534

• Alessandro Farnese
• Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora

May 21, 1535

• Nikolaus von Schönberg OP
• Girolamo Ghinucci
• Giacomo Simoneta
• John Fisher
• Jean du Bellay
• Gasparo Contarini
• Marino Ascanio Caracciolo

December 22, 1536

• Gian Pietro Carafa
• Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte
• Ennio Filonardi
• Jacopo Sadoleto
• Cristoforo Giacobazzi
• Charles de Hémard de Denonville
• Rodolfo Pio
• Reginald Pole
• Rodrigo Luis de Borja y de Castre-Pinós
• in pectore : Girolamo Aleandro
• Niccolò Caetani di Sermoneta

March 13, 1538

• Girolamo Aleandro (announced)

October 18, 1538

• Pedro Sarmiento

December 20, 1538

• Juan Álvarez de Toledo OP
• Pedro Fernández Manrique
• Robert II. De Lénoncourt
• David Beaton
• Ippolito II. D'Este in pectore , published March 15, 1539
• Pietro Bembo OSIo.Hieros.

December 19, 1539

• Federico Fregóso
• Pierre de La Baume
• Antoine Sanguin de Meudon
• Uberto Gàmbara
• Pierpaolo Parisio
• Marcello Cervini
• Bartolomeo Guidiccioni
• Ascanio Parisani
• Dionisio Neagrus Laurerio OSM
• Enrique de Borja y Aragon
• Giacomo Savelli
• Miguel da Silva

June 2, 1542

• Giovanni Girolamo Morone
• Marcello Crescenzi
• Giovanni Vincenzo Acquaviva d'Aragona
• Pomponio Cecci
• Roberto Pucci
• Tommaso Badia OP
• Gregorio Cortese OSB
• Cristoforo Madruzzo

December 19, 1544

• Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva
• Francisco Mendoza de Bobadilla
• Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo
• Georges d'Armagnac
• Jacques d'Annebaut
• Otto Truchsess von Waldburg
• Andrea Cornaro
• Francesco Sfondrati
• Federico Cesi
• Durante Duranti
• Niccolò Ardinghelli
• Girolamo Recanati Capodiferro
• Tiberio Crispo

December 16, 1545

• Pedro Pacheco de Villena
• Georges II d'Amboise
• Henry I of Portugal
• Ranuccio Farnese OSIo.Hieros.

July 27, 1547

• Charles I. de Guise de Lorraine
• Giulio della Rovere

January 9, 1548

• Charles I. de Bourbon

April 8, 1549

• Girolamo Verallo
• Giovanni Angelo Medici
• Filiberto Ferrero
• Bernardino Maffei

Web links

• Consistories for the creation of Cardinals - Paul III (1534-1549). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2016.