Giacomo or Jacopo Rospigliosi (1628 – 2 February 1684) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.

Biography

Born in

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

, he was the son of Camillo Rospigliosi and Lucrezia Cellesi, making him the brother of cardinal Felice Rospigliosi, nephew of Giulio Rospigliosi (later

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), cousin of cardinal Carlo Agostino Fabroni, the uncle of cardinal

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and great-uncle of cardinal Flavio Chigi junior. He studied under the Jesuits in

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and graduated with a degree in utroque jure in 1649. He went to Rome in 1643 and later returned to Spain with his uncle Giulio, who was then

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to the

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. He was sent on diplomatic missions to Paris and Flanders and later became Prefect of the Tribunal of the

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in December 1667. He was made a cardinal in the consistory of 12 December 1667 by his uncle, who was now pope, with the title of Cardinal Priest of San Sisto, which he held until 1672, when he chose Santi Giovanni e Paolo as his titulus. In 1667 he became Archpriest of the Liberian Basilica, a role he held until his death. He also served as governor of

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, Tivoli and Capranica and from 1668 to 1680 was tied to

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. He took part in the 1669-70 and

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papal conclaves. In 1680 he became

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of the College of Cardinals. He died in Rome and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rospigliosi, Giacomo 1628 births 1684 deaths 17th-century Italian cardinals People from Pistoia