Papal conclave, 1623

Papal conclave July–August 1623
Coat of arms during the vacancy of the Holy See
Dates and location
19 July – 6 August 1623 Apostolic Palace, Papal States
Key officials
Dean	Antonio Maria Sauli
Sub-Dean	Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte
Camerlengo	Ippolito Aldobrandini
Protopriest	Federico Borromeo
Protodeacon	Alessandro d'Este
Elected Pope
Maffeo Barberini (Name taken: Urban VIII)

Gregory XV

The papal conclave of 1623 was the papal conclave of Cardinals called on the death of Pope Gregory XV. It lasted eighteen days from 19 July 1623 to 6 August 1623 and chose Maffeo Barberini, who took office as Pope Urban VIII.

History

The College of Cardinals was then made up of 66 members, of whom all but 12 cardinals were in Rome at the time the conclave was called, so the conclave had 54 participants, chosen by the following popes:

• Pope Gregory XV: 9 cardinals
• Pope Paul V: 32 cardinals
• Pope Clement VIII: 8 cardinals
• Pope Gregory XIV: 2 cardinals
• Pope Sixtus V: 2 cardinals
• Pope Gregory XIII: 1 cardinal

The conclave divided up into four factions:

• The elderly, who had risen to cardinal even before the accession of Pope Paul V
• The prince-cardinals from the Farnese and d'Este families, as well as the cardinal of Savoy
• The 22 to 25 Borghesiani, created by the Borghese pope, Paul V
• The Ludovisiani, the cardinal-nephews of Gregory XV and their supporters, led by Ludovico Ludovisi, initially including only 15 cardinals but later rising to 20.

Participants

• Cardinal Dean: Antonio Maria Sauli
• Sub-dean: Francesco Maria del Monte
• Maffeo Barberini
• Giovanni Battista Deti
• Francesco Sforza di Santa Fiora
• Ottavio Bandini
• Federico Borromeo
• Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto
• Bonifazio Bevilacqua Aldobrandini
• Alessandro d'Éste
• Domenico Ginnasi
• Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo
• Giovanni Doria
• Carlo Emanuele Pio di Savoia
• Scipione Borghese
• Giovanni Garzia Millini
• Marcello Lante della Rovere
• Maurizio di Savoia
• Fabrizio Veralli
• Giovanni Battista Leni
• Luigi Capponi
• Dezio Carafa
• Domenico Rivarola
• Pier Paolo Crescenzi
• Giacomo Serra
• Agostino Galamini
• Gaspar Borgia
• Felice Centini
• Roberto Ubaldini
• Tiberio Muti
• Gabriel Trejo Paniagua
• Carlo de Medici
• Giulio Savelli
• Melchior Klesl
• Pietro Campora
• Matteo Prioli
• Scipione Cobelluzzi
• Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri
• Guido Bentivoglio
• Pietro Valier
• Eitel Friedrich von Zollern
• Giulio Roma
• Cesare Gherardi
• Desiderio Scaglia
• Stefano Pignatelli
• Ludovico Ludovisi
• Antonio Caetani
• Francesco Sacrati
• Francesco Boncompagni
• Ippolito Aldobrandini
• Lucio Sanseverino
• Marcantonio Gozzadini
• Cosmo de Torres
• Ottavio Rodolfi

Absent cardinals

• Franz von Dietrichstein
• François de Sourdis
• Antonio Zapata y Cisneros
• François de la Rochefoucald
• Baltasar de Moscoso y Sandoval
• Alessandro Orsini
• Francisco Gómez de Sandoval y Rojas
• Ferdinand of Austria
• Louis de Nogaret d´Epernon de la Valette
• Agostino Spinola
• Armand-Jean du Plessis de Richelieu
• Alfonso de la Cueva

Sources

• vaticanhistory.de: Urban VIII.

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