Angelo II Acciaioli (15 April 1349 - 31 May 1408) was an
Italian Catholic
cardinal
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**'' Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
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Biography
Born in
Florence
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, Angelo was elected
Bishop of Rapolla in 1375, but in 1383 he was transferred to the
see of Florence where he had been preceded by a previous family member many years before,
Angelo Acciaioli. He was promoted to the cardinalate on 17 December 1384 by
Pope Urban VI
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. He defended legality of the election of Urban VI and his successors against the claims of the antipopes
Clement VII and
Benedict XIII. In the
Papal conclave, 1389 he was actively working on being elected to the papacy, but an anonymous narrative of the Conclave accuses him of simony (bribery), managing thereby to acquire six votes of the thirteen cardinals in the Conclave.
[Johannes J. J. Döllinger, ''Beiträge zur politischen, kirchlichen, und cultur- Geschichte der sechs letzten Jahrhunderte'' III. Band (Regensburg: Georg Joseph Manz 1882), pp. 361-362: "Conclave, quo Bonifacius IX. papa creatus est".]
He was legate of
Pope Boniface IX in the
Kingdom of Naples
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in 1390 and in
Hungary
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in 1403. As papal legate, Angelo crowned king
Ladislaus of Naples in Gaeta on 29 May 1390. He reformed the Benedictine monastery S. Paolo fuori le mura in Rome and participated in the
papal conclave, 1404. Newly elected
Pope Innocent VII named him archpriest of the
patriarchal Vatican Basilica (shortly after 4 December 1404),
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia e Velletri (12 June 1405),
Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (12 June 1405), and finally
Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church (on 29 August 1405). He presided over the
papal conclave, 1406. He died in
Pisa
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at the age of 59. His remains were transferred to the Carthusian monastery in Florence.
In January 1394, King Ladislaus of Naples named him as his ''
bailli'' and vicar-general for the
Principality of Achaea and
Lepanto. At the same time, he received the position of
Latin Archbishop of Patras
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.
References
Sources
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*''The Florentine church'', Archbishop Curia, Florence 1970.
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*Curzio Ugurgieri della Berardenga, ''Gli Acciaioli di Firenze nella Luce de' Loro Tempi'', Leo Olschki, 1962.
*Martin Souchon: ''Die Papstwahlen in der Zeit des grossen Schismas'', Verlag von Benno Goeritz, 1888
Acknowledgment
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1349 births
1408 deaths
Angelo 2
Clergy from Florence
15th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Ostia
Deans of the College of Cardinals
Diplomats of the Holy See
15th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops
Latin archbishops of Patras
14th-century people of the Principality of Achaea