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(r. 1378–1389) created 42 cardinals in four consistories held throughout his pontificate. In 1381 he named his future successor

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as a cardinal.

18 September 1378

The pope offered the cardinalate to the

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though he refused the nomination. * Tommaso da Frignano O.F.M. * Pietro Pileo di Prata *

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* Luca Rodolfucci de Gentili *

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* Bonaventura Badoaro de Peraga

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* Niccolò Caracciolo Moschino O.P. * Filippo Carafa * Galeotto Tarlati de Petramala * Giovanni d'Amelia * Filippo Ruffini O.P. * Poncello Orsini *

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* Renoul de Monteruc * Gentile di Sangro *

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* Jan Očko z Vlašim * Guglielmo Sanseverino * Eleazario da Sabran * Dömötör * Agapito Colonna * Ludovico di Capua * Stefano Colonna *

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21 December 1381

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* Ludovico Donato O.F.M. * Bartolomeo da Cogorno O.F.M. * Francesco Renzio * Landolfo Maramaldo * Pietro Tomacelli

1383

* Marino Giudice *

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* Guglielmo di Capua

17 December 1384

The pope was said to have offered the cardinalate to the

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Friedrich von Saarwerden and the

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though both refused. In addition, the

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Arnold von Hoorn O.F.M., the

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Wenzel von Liegnitz, and Pietro Orsini-Rosenberg (priest from

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) all declined elevations to the cardinalate. The pope also offered three others the cardinalate, but these three men accepted the promotion from the pope's rival

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. *

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* Angelo Acciaioli *

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O.Cist. * Marino Bulcani *

Rinaldo Brancaccio Rinaldo Brancaccio (died 27 March 1427) was an Italian cardinal from the 14th and 15th century, during the Western Schism. Other members of his family were also created cardinals: Landolfo Brancaccio (1294); Niccolò Brancaccio, pseudocardinal o ...

* Francesco Castagnola *

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* Stefano Palosio * O.S.B. Cam.

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