The 1227 papal election (19 March), was convoked after the death of Pope Honorius III on 18 March 1227 at

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s present at Rome assembled in the SeptizodiumOr possibly the Septasolium. There has been confusion about these locations, a
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/ref> on the next day after the death of Honorius III and decided to elect the new Pope by ''compromissum'', meaning not by the whole Sacred College of Cardinals but by the committee of few of them, empowered by the rest to appoint the new Pontiff. The same procedure had been already used in the previous election. The committee numbered three cardinals, among whom were cardinal-bishops Ugolino di Segni of Ostia and Konrad von Urach of Porto (the name of the third one is not registered). Initially the committee elected its member Konrad von Urach with two votes out three, but he refused the tiara. Hereupon the rest of cardinals unanimously elected Ugolino di Segni (another committee member) on 19 March 1227. He reluctantly accepted the high honour, taking the name of

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. The new Pope received the pallium in the Vatican Basilica on 21 March 1227, and on the same day was enthroned in the Lateran Basilica. On 11 April 1227, his relative Ottaviano Conti di Segni, archdeacon of the Sacred College, solemnly crowned him in the Basilica di S. Maria in Maggiore.

List of participants

Probably 15 out of 18 cardinals participated in the election:The reconstruction is based on
Vatican History: Konklave 1227
; F. Bourkle-Young: notes to the papal election of 1227 o

and K. Eubel, p. 5 n. 5, but with corrections based on the biographical entries of the respective cardinals in Werner Maleczek, ''Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216'', Vienna 1984 and Elfriede Kartusch, ''Das Kardinalskollegium in der Zeit von 1181-1227'', Univ. of Vienna 1948.

Absentee cardinal

Probably three cardinals were absent:

Notes

Sources

* Konrad Eubel, ''Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, volumen I'', 1913
F. Bourkle-Young: notes to the papal election of 1227

* Werner Maleczek, ''Papst und Kardinalskolleg von 1191 bis 1216'', Wien 1984 * Timo Bandhold
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