Marco Barbo
Marco Barbo (* 1420 in Venice , † March 11, 1491 in Rome ) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church . He was a son of the Venetian patrician Paolo Barbo.
Church career
His uncle, Pope Paul II , elevated him to cardinal dignity on September 18, 1467 and appointed him cardinal priest of San Marco . 1478 he became cardinal bishop of Palestrina , but kept his former titular church as Coming in, also be Epitaph is. In 1478 he was also named Camerlengo of the College of Cardinals .
From 1455 he was Elect of Treviso (until 1470), in 1464 he was also appointed Bishop of Vicenza . In 1470 he was promoted to Patriarch of Aquileia . Numerous comedians outside Rome served for further care; from 1468 until his death he was Commendatarabbot of Santo Spirito in Palermo.
From 1464 he was entrusted with diplomatic missions in France and England. In 1472 he was sent as a legate to Germany, Hungary and Poland, mainly to help with Emperor Friedrich III. to advertise a crusade, in 1474 he returned to Rome. As a cardinal, Barbo was particularly committed to the concerns of English prelates. In 1467 he became the first cardinal protector of the German hospital Santa Maria dell'Anima , in whose brotherhood he was admitted in 1479. The later master of ceremonies Alexander VI was one of his families . Johannes Burckard . From 1466 to 1471 Cardinal Barbo was Grand Prior of the Grand Priory of Rome of the Order of St. John .
In the conclave of 1484, which ended with the election of Innocent VIII , he received ten votes in a scrutiny , which forced the secular parliamentary groups to work together to prevent the election of a morally upright candidate who stood up for church reform.
He was a recognized book collector. He used his estate for charitable purposes.
Fonts
- Instrumentum monitorium contra Johannes Vridach, Johannes von Sommeren, Komtur von Reval et sociis ( la ). Matthäus Brandis, Lübeck 1490.
literature
- Giuseppe Zippel: La morte di Marco Barbo, cardinal di San Marco. In: Medioevo e Umanesimo. Volume 33, 1979, pp. 483-492 (first published 1915).
- Pio Paschini: Il carteggio fra il card. Marco Barbo e Giovanni Lorenzi (1481-1490). Città del Vaticano 1948 (Studi e testi 137).
- Germano Gualdo: Barbo, Marco. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Volume VI, 1964, pp. 249-252.
- M. Romanello: Barbo, Marco. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume I, 1980, col. 1446.
- S. Fletcher: Cardinal Marco Barbo as protector of English interests at the Roman Curia in the late fifteenth century. In: The Downside review. Volume 118, 2000, pp. 27-44, ISSN 0012-5806 .
Web links
- Marco Barbo. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed June 30, 2015.
Remarks
- ↑ In the same consistory, Francesco della Rovere, who later became Sixtus IV, was created cardinal.
Individual evidence
- ^ Clifford W. Maas (author), Peter Herde (ed.): The German Community in Renaissance Rome 1378–1523 (= Roman quarterly, 39th supplement). Rome - Freiburg - Vienna 1981, pp. 45, 90
- ↑ List of the grand priorities of Rome ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Francis A. Burkle-Young: The election of Pope Innocent VIII (1484). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website ), accessed December 5, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Angelo Capranica |
Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina 1478–1491 |
Jean de La Balue |
| Ludwig III. Scarampi-Mezzarota |
Patriarch of Aquileia 1465-1491 |
Hermolaus Barbarus |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbo, Marco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1420 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1491 |
| Place of death | Rome |