Francesco Pannocchieschi d'Elci (1625 or 1626,
Florence
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- 20 June 1702) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and archbishop.
Life
He came from a noble
Sienese
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family of the
Pannocchieschi
The Pannocchieschi was a prominent noble family from Siena and Volterra in Italy, probably of Lombardy, Lombard origin.{{in lang, it Archivio di Stato di Siena, Guida-inventario dell'Archivio di Stato, III, Roma 1977, p. 120. They held the title Co ...
d'Elci, who held the status of counts. He was the son of count Ranieri and a noblewoman from the
Altoviti family. One of Ranieri's brothers was cardinal
Scipione Pannocchieschi, whom Francesco accompanied during Scipione's
Pontifical Legature to the
Republic of Venice
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(1647-1652). Scipione's ''Relazione sulle cose della repubblica'' offers a glimpse of life in Venice at that time. Francesco also assisted Scipione to the court of
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
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in Germany (1653-1654).
This acted as an introduction to the church's life in Rome - Francesco became secret chamberlin or 'cubicularius' to the pope and canon of
St Peter's Basilica
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Life
His classical studies made at Biberach an der Riss and Rottweil (1826–1834), he studied ...
, ''Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo'', Leipzig, Hiersemann, 1931. He succeeded his uncle as
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