Benedetto Accolti the younger (29 October 1497 – 21 September 1549) was an Italian cardinal. He was born in

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, the son of

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, patrician of Arezzo, and Lucrezia Alamanni. He died in

of an

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. He was nephew of Cardinal

Pietro Accolti Pietro Accolti (15 March 1455 – 11 December 1532), known as the "cardinal of Ancona", was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and judge of the Roman Rota. Life He was born in Florence on 15 March 1455, the son of the famous jurist Benedetto Accol ...

and was called "Il Giovane" or the Cardinal of

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Early life

He studied in the universities of

and Pisa.
Benedetto Accolti started his ecclesiastical career in the Roman Curia, following the steps of his uncle.

Episcopate

He was promoted

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of Cadiz on 24 July 1521, before reaching canonical age of 27, so he was named administrator after his uncle. Then he was transferred to Cremona on 16 March 1523 again after his uncle and then named Secretary of

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the same year.

Cardinalate

He was created cardinal priest in the

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of 3 May 1527 with the title of

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, again after his uncle. On 17 August 1524 he was promoted to the metropolitan see of

after his uncle. He was named administrator of

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until 1535. In addition,

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appointed him Cardinal-Protector of Scottish affairs at Rome, dealing with church appointments and negotiations for the King's marriage. His uncle, the Cardinal of Ancona, had performed this role since the regency of the

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.Hay, Denys, ed., ''Letters of James V'', HMSO (1954), 201. He participated in the Conclave in 1534. The new Pope Paul III deprived him of his cardinalate on 27 August 1534, and imprisoned him in the Castel Sant'Angelo, accusing him of misspending 19,000 ducats for the expedition against the Turks. The next year he paid a large sum of money and was restored to the cardinalate under some conditions. He wrote some works in Latin, including poetry. At the request of the later Pope, he wrote a treatise to assert the right of the pope to the Kingdom of Naples.
He died in Florence on 21 September 1549 in Florence and was buried in the church of S. Lorenzo, Florence.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Accolti, Benedetto 1497 births 1549 deaths Clergy from Florence Archbishops of Ravenna 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops 16th-century Italian cardinals 16th-century people of the Republic of Florence