Bartolomeo Roverella
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Bartolomeo Roverella (1406–1476) (called the Cardinal of Ravenna) was an Italian Roman Catholic Bishop and cardinal.
Biography
[edit]Bartolomeo Roverella was born in Rovigo in 1406, the son of Palatine Count Giovanni Roverella (camerlengo of Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara), and his wife Beatrice de' Leopardi di Lendinara.[1] Bartolomeo Roverella received a doctorate in law.[1]
After completing his education, Roverella became a clerk of the Bishop of Modena.[1] He was next a chaplain of the Patriarch of Aquileia.[1] He then moved to Rome and became secretary to Pope Eugene IV.[1]
On 15 July 1444 he was elected the first ever Bishop of Adria.[1] He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Ravenna on 26 September 1445.[1]
He was present in Rome for the papal conclave of March 1447.[1] He became a papal chamberlain to Pope Nicholas V and auditor of the Roman Rota.[1] He served as governor of Umbria from 1448 to 1451.[1] In 1451, he was appointed nuncio to the Kingdom of England.[1] From 1452 to 1455, he was governor of Marche Piceno.[1] In 1459, he served as governor of Viterbo.[1] In Viterbo he was able to suppress a revolt by the Maganza faction, imprisoning and executing Alessio de Tignosi.[2]
Pope Pius II named him papal legate to the Kingdom of Naples in 1460.[1] He was then governor of Benevento from 1460 to 1466.[1]
In the consistory of 18 December 1461, Pope Pius II made him a cardinal priest while Rovarella was in his legation to Naples.[1] Upon his return to Rome on 26 January 1462, he was awarded the titular church of San Clemente, and then received the red hat on 30 January 1462.[1]
On 13 February 1464 he returned to the Kingdom of Naples, where he supported Ferdinand of Aragon against René of Anjou.[1]
Cardinal Roverella returned to Rome on 23 August 1464, and participated in the papal conclave of 1464 that elected Pope Paul II.[1] On 8 January 1470 Paul II named him papal legate to Perugia.[1]
He returned to Rome on 1 August 1471 to participate in the papal conclave of 1471 that elected Pope Sixtus IV.[1] The new pope named him Apostolic legate to the March of Ancona and he left for his legation on 24 October 1471.[1] He returned to Rome in 1473.[1]
On 12 January 1475 he was elected Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals.[1]
He died in Ferrara on 2 May 1476.[1] He is buried in San Clemente.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Miranda, Salvador. "ROVERELLA, Bartolomeo (1406-1476)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. OCLC 53276621.
- ^ Societa L'Unione Tipografico-Editrice (1864). Nuova Enciclopedia Popolare Italiana ovvero Dizionario Generale, 5th Edition, Volume 20. Turin. p. 185.
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