Prospero Colonna (Cardinal)

Prospero Colonna (* around 1410 in Rome ; † March 24, 1463 there ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Prospero Colonna was the 5th child of Count Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and a nephew of Pope Martin V , who made him cardinal on May 24, 1426 in pectore . Colonna, named as Apostolic Notary, had been Archdeacon of Canterbury since June 1424, which he remained until 1434. After the Pope published his name as cardinal on November 8, 1430 and made him cardinal deacon of the titular church of San Giorgio in Velabro , in 1430 he became Commendatarabbot of Casamari . Pope Eugene IV expelled him from the city of Rome on October 9, 1433, but rehabilitated him a short time later.

Cardinal protodeacon from September 1437 , he was chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals for 1439 . The cardinal interested in archeology pushed for the election of Pope Nicholas V and crowned him Pope on March 19, 1447. He accompanied him to Spoleto in 1449 , as the plague raged in Rome .

After he was on April 20, 1455 Kalixt III. Having been crowned Pope, he was the Duke of Milan's favorite in the 1458 conclave . But the college chose Cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini, whom he crowned as Pope Pius II on September 3, 1458 . He sent him to Mantua in 1460 to prepare a meeting of princes to carry out a crusade against the Turks.

Colonna, who was also the Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica and owned a large library, participated as a voter in the conclaves of 1431 , 1447 , 1455 and 1458 .

literature

• Franca Petrucci:  Colonna, Prospero. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 27:  Collenuccio – Confortini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1982.

Web links

• Colonna, Prospero. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 4, 2016.