Napoleone Orsini Frangipani
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Cardinal Napoleone Orsini |
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| Church | Sant' Adriano |
| Predecessor | Ottobono Fieschi (1251-1276) |
| Successor | Rinaldo Orsini (1350-1374) |
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| Created Cardinal | 16 May 1288 by Pope Nicholas IV |
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| Born | 1263 Rome |
| Died | 24 March 1342 Avignon, France |
| Nationality | Italian |
Napoleone Orsini (1263 – 24 March 1342) was a Roman Cardinal. His ecclesiastical career lasted 57 years, 54 of them as a cardinal, and included six conclaves.
Born in Rome to Rinaldo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and of Marino, son of Matteo Rosso Orsini 'il Grande'; and Ocilenda, perhaps the daughter of Stefano II Conti, perhaps of a member of the house of Boveschi. Rinaldo was a brother of Pope Nicholas III and of Cardinal Giordano Orsini. Napoleone took holy orders in 1285 and was named a papal sub-chaplain by Honorius IV. He is attested as Papal Chaplain on February 18, 1286. He rose quickly in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and in a Consistory held by Pope Nicholas IV on 16 May 1288, he was appointed a Cardinal Deacon and assigned the Deaconry of S. Adriano.
During the pontificate of Boniface VIII his gift for diplomacy was put to wide use and he was named legate to Spoleto and Ancona on 27 May 1300. In this capacity, in 1301, he retook the city of Gubbio, which had rebelled against the Papal State. An opponent of the Colonna family, he was a supporter of Boniface' Italian crusades.
From 1303 to 1341 Cardinal Napoleone was Prebend of Sutton cum Buckingham in the diocese of Lincoln. He was appointed Canon and Prebend of Suthcave in the Church of York (before September 21, 1304), a benefice which he held until 1342.
In 1305, after the Conclave of 1304-1305 and two weeks after his coronation, the new Pope, Clement V, made him Archpriest of S. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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