Giovanni Berardi (
1380
Year 1380 ( MCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
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– 21 January 1449), Italian
Cardinal
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, of the counts of
Tagliacozzo
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History
Tagliacozzo lies in an area inhabited in early historic times by the Aequi and the Marsi, although the first mentions of the town ...
, was elected
Archbishop of Taranto in 1421, and occupied the see until December 1439, when
Pope Eugenius IV raised him to the cardinalate. He represented Eugene at the
Council of Basel, and he later served as papal legate in Germany against
antipope Felix V (1439–40), and as legate ''a latere'' to establish peace between kings of Sicily and Aragon, 1440-41. He was named
bishop of the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on 7 March 1444, and
grand penitentiary
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, at the end of that year. As the most senior cardinal-bishop residing in
Roman Curia, he became
dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals in 1445. He presided over the
papal conclave, 1447, and successfully promoted the candidature of Cardinal Tommaso Parentucelli, who was elected
Pope Nicholas V. He died in
Rome at the age of 69.
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1380 births
1449 deaths
Deans of the College of Cardinals
15th-century Italian cardinals
Major Penitentiaries of the Apostolic Penitentiary
15th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops