Bernardino López de Carvajal
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His Eminence Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande |
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| Bishop of Plasencia | |
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| Diocese | Plasencia |
| See | Plasencia |
| Appointed | 14 January 1521 |
| Term ended | 16 December 1523 |
| Predecessor | Gómez de Toledo Solís |
| Successor | Gutierre de Vargas Carvajal |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia e Velletri |
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| Consecration | 21 December 1488 by Jean Balue |
| Created Cardinal | 20 September 1493 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Bishop |
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| Born |
8 September 1456 Plasencia |
| Died | 16 December 1523 (aged 67) |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Bernardino López de Carvajal y Sande (1456, Plasencia, Extremadura – Rome, 16 December 1523) was a Spanish Cardinal.
He was a nephew of Cardinal Juan Carvajal, and advanced rapidly in the ecclesiastical career at Rome, whither he came during the pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV (1471–84). Under Pope Innocent VIII he held successively the Spanish sees of Astorga (1488), Badajoz (1489), and Cartagena, in which latter quality he was sent as nuncio to Spain. Their Catholic Majesties sent him back as Spanish ambassador to Pope Alexander VI, by whom he was made Cardinal of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus in 1493, which title he exchanged in 1495 for that of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
In the next following years he was sent twice as legate to the German imperial court, also to Naples, and acted as Governor of the Campagna. In 1503 he was made Bishop of Siguenza in Spain, and Administrator of the diocese of Avellino; from 1507 to 1509 he was in turn Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, Bishop of Frascati, Bishop of Palestrina and Bishop of Sabina.
In spite of this rapid advancement and his numerous benefices he is best remembered as the leading spirit of the schismatical Council of Pisa (1511), which he organized with the aid of four other cardinals (Cardinal Briçonnet, Cardinal Francesco Borgia, Cardinal Federico Sanseverino, and Cardinal René de Prie). Dissatisfaction with his treatment by Pope Julius II, and subserviency to the excommunicate Louis XII of France, led Carvajal to this rebellious attitude.
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